Fairy tales, natural history and Victorian culture
[Book]
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, Professor of English, University of Toulouse, France.
New York
Palgrave Macmillan
2014
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.
Includes index.
1. From The Wonders of Nature to the Wonders of Evolution: Charles Kingsley's Nursery Fairies --;2. 'How Are You To Enter The Fairy-Land of Science?': The Wonders of The Natural World in Arabella Buckley's Popular Science Works For Children --;3. The Mechanization of Feelings: Mary de Morgan's Toy Princess --;4. Nature Under Glass: Victorian Cinderellas, Magic and Metamorphosis --;5. Nature Exposed: Charting the Wild Body in "Little Red Riding Hood" --;6. Nature and the Natural World in Mary Louisa Molesworth's "Christmas-Tree Land " --;7. Edith Nesbit's Fairies and Freaks of Nature: Environmental Consciousness in "Five Children and It."
Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fairies to explain natural history at a time when 'nature' became a much debated word.
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Fairy tales -- England -- History and criticism.
Literature and science -- England -- History -- 19th century.
PR585
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S33
L387
2014
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, Professor of English, University of Toulouse, France.