Fairy tales, natural history and Victorian culture
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, Professor of English, University of Toulouse, France.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014
SERIES
Series Title
Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Includes index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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."
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Fairy tales -- England -- History and criticism.
Literature and science -- England -- History -- 19th century.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
PR585
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S33
Book number
L387
2014
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, Professor of English, University of Toulouse, France.