3 options
Strange and secret peoples : fairies and Victorian consciousness / Carole G. Silver.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Silver, Carole G., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fairies.
- Folklore--Great Britain.
- Folklore.
- Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford University Press 2000
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- By recapturing the nineteenth-century worlds of the super- and sub-human, and recontextualizing a forgotton obsession - this text enables twentieth-century readers to recover a legacy too precious to be lost.
- Contents:
- List of Illustrations INTRODUCTION: Greetings from Another World: Romantic Rediscoveries ONE: On the Origins of Fairies TWO: "Come Away Thou Human Child": Abductions, Change, and Changelings THREE: "East of the Sun and West of the Moon": Victorians and Fairy Brides FOUR: Little Goblin Men: On Dwarfs and Pygmies, Racial Myths and Mythic Races FIVE: The Faces of Evil: Fairies, Mobs, and Female Cruelty SIX: Farewell to the Fairies Works Cited
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1999.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028683-0
- 0-19-772628-3
- 1-280-47077-1
- 9786610470778
- 0-19-802846-6
- 1-282-38407-4
- 9786612384073
- 0-19-534937-7
- 1-60256-769-7
- OCLC:
- 960759799
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.