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At the bottom of the garden : a dark history of fairies, hobgoblins, and other troublesome things / Diane Purkiss.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) BF1552 .P87 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Purkiss, Diane, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fairies--History.
- Fairies.
- Fairies in literature.
- Fairies in art.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Troublesome things : a history of fairies and fairy stories
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, 2001.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Fear of Fairies 1
- 1. Ancient Worlds 11
- 2. Medieval Dreams 52
- Early Modern Fairies
- 3. Birth and Death: Fairies in Scottish Witch-trials 85
- 4. Desire of Gold and the Good Neighbours: The Uses of Fairies 116
- 5. The Fairy Goes Literary: Puck and Others 158
- 6. Into the Enlightenment 194
- 7. Victorian Fairies 220
- 8. Tinker Bell's Magic and the Fairies' Call to War 265
- 9. Photographing Fairies, and a Celtic Revival 284
- 10. Fairy Bubbles and Alien Abductions 304.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 2000, under title Troublesome things : a history of fairies and fairy stories.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-348) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0814766838
- OCLC:
- 45207790
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