Victorian fairy tales / edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Newton, Michael (Michael Stuart), 1965- editor.

Standardized Title:

Fairy tales. English. Selections.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century.

English fiction.

Fairy tales--History and criticism.

Fairy tales.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xlii, 444 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

This anthology brings together 14 of the best Victorian fairy tales, by major period writers as well as specialists in the genre, to show the vibrancy of the form and its ability to reflect our deepest concerns. From whimsy to satire, the stories reveal the preoccupations of the age and celebrate the value of the imagination.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: PROLOGUE

Rumpel-Stilts-kin / Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm

The Princess and the Peas / Hans Christian Andersen

The Story of the Three Bears / Robert Southey

The King of the Golden River / John Ruskin

The Rose and the Ring / William Makepeace Thackeray

The Golden Key / George Macdonald

The Little Lame Prince and his Travelling Cloak / Dinah Mulock Craik

The Wanderings of Arasmon / Mary De Morgan

The First Wife's Wedding-Ring / Juliana Horatia Ewing

The Selfish Giant / Oscar Wilde

Prince Prigio / Andrew Lang

The Queen Who Flew / Ford Madox Ford

The Story of the Herons / Laurence Housman

The Reluctant Dragon / Kenneth Grahame

Melisande / E. Nesbit

Dymchurch Flit / Rudyard Kipling

Appendix: What is a Fairy Tale?

`Introduction' to German Popular Tales / John Ruskin

`Preface' to Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales / Juliana Horatia Ewing

`The Fantastic Imagination' / George Macdonald

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [405]-444).

ISBN:

9780199601950

019960195X

OCLC:

892040894