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The fantastic sublime : Romanticism and transcendence in nineteenth-century children's fantasy literature / David Sandner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sandner, David, 1966-
- Series:
- Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy ; no 69.
- Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy, 0193-6875 ; no 69
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's literature, English--History and criticism.
- Children's literature, English.
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Fantasy literature, English--History and criticism.
- Fantasy literature, English.
- Children--Books and reading--History--19th century.
- Children.
- Children--Books and reading.
- History.
- Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature.
- Sublime, The, in literature.
- Romanticism--Great Britain.
- Romanticism.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 160 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- Examines the ways in which Romanticism took part in the revolution of the view of fantasy literature, arguing that nineteenth-century children's fantasy cultivated a new image of children and the role of imagination.
- Contents:
- Part I Romanticism, Childhood, Fairy Tales and the World of the Spirit
- Chapter 1 Puer Aeternus, the Divine Child 3
- Chapter 2 "Old" Fairy Tales and the "New" Romantic Child 13
- Chapter 3 The Moral Tale and the Fairy Tale 25
- Chapter 4 The Consubstantial World of Faery 31
- Part II The Wind from Beyond the World
- Chapter 5 The "Correspondent Breeze" 43
- Chapter 6 From the Romantic to the Fantastic Sublime 49
- Chapter 7 The Fantastic Sublime in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows 67
- Chapter 8 The Fantastic Sublime in George MacDonald's At the Back of the North Wind 83
- Part III Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and the Feminine Rereading of the Fantastic Sublime
- Chapter 9 The Price of Fairy Fruit in Goblin Market 103
- Chapter 10 The Domesticated Sublime in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 115
- Chapter 11 The Imagination Unbound in Goblin Market 121
- Chapter 12 Difference and Common Ground 137.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [149]-155) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0313300844
- OCLC:
- 34473843
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