Spellbound: The Fairy Tale and the Victorians
Autor Molly Clark Hillarden Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mai 2016
In examining the relationship between fairy tales and Victorian culture, Molly Clark Hillard concludes that the Victorians were “spellbound”: novelists, poets, and playwrights were self-avowedly enchanted by these tales. At the same time, Spellbound: The Fairy Tale and the Victorians shows that literary genres were bound to the fairy tale and dependent on its forms and figures to make meaning. But these “spellbound” literary artists also feared that fairy tales exuded an originative power that pervaded and precluded authored work. In part to dispel the fairy tale’s potency, Victorians resolved this tension by treating the form as a nostalgic refuge from an industrial age, a quaint remnant of the pre-literacy of childhood and peasantry, and a form fit not for modern gentlemen but rather for old wives.
Through close readings of the novels of Dickens, Eliot, and Charlotte Brontë; the poetry of Tennyson and Christina Rossetti; the visual artistry of Burne-Jones and Punch; and the popular theatricals of dramatists like Planche and Buckingham, Spellbound opens fresh territory into well-traversed titles of the Victorian canon. Hillard demonstrates that these literary forms were all cross-pollenated by the fairy tale and that their authors were—however reluctantly—purveyors of disruptive fairy tale matter over which they had but imperfect control.
Through close readings of the novels of Dickens, Eliot, and Charlotte Brontë; the poetry of Tennyson and Christina Rossetti; the visual artistry of Burne-Jones and Punch; and the popular theatricals of dramatists like Planche and Buckingham, Spellbound opens fresh territory into well-traversed titles of the Victorian canon. Hillard demonstrates that these literary forms were all cross-pollenated by the fairy tale and that their authors were—however reluctantly—purveyors of disruptive fairy tale matter over which they had but imperfect control.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780814252802
ISBN-10: 081425280X
Pagini: 290
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
ISBN-10: 081425280X
Pagini: 290
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Recenzii
“As Molly Clark Hillard convincingly reveals, the Victorians managed to make the fairy tale central to their understanding of their own progressive modernity by asserting its antiquated qualities, all while celebrating their modern distance from such things as fairy tales. I predict her book will have a broad relevance in fields from children’s literature studies and the emerging field of interdisciplinary childhood studies to nineteenth-century and comparative literature.” —Troy Boone, University of Pittsburgh
“In her promising new book, Molly Clark Hillard clearly shows how seemingly authorless fairy tales affected the way many Victorians saw the world. She argues that, though nostalgia for a world that probably never existed played a part in the Victorian reception of fairy tales, they were also intricately bound up in Victorian ways of thinking about politics, finance, and manufacturing.” —Elizabeth Wanning Harries, Helen and Laura Shedd Professor Emerita of Modern Languages, Smith College
Notă biografică
Molly Clark Hillard is assistant professor of English at Seattle University.
Cuprins
Introduction: Nostalgia, Literacy, and the Fairy Tale
Part 1. Matter
Part 1. Matter
- The Novelist and the Collector
- Pickwick Papers and the End of Miscellany
- The Natural History of Thornfield
- Antiquity, Novelty, and The Key to All Mythologies
- Sleeping Beauty and Victorian Temporality
- Keats on Sleep and Beauty
- “A Perfect Form in Perfect Rest”: Tennyson’s “Day Dream”
- Burne-Jones and the Poetic Frame
- Fairy Footsteps and Goblin Economies
- The Great Exhibition: Fairy Palace, Goblin Market
- Rossetti’s Homeopathy
- Little Red Riding Hood Arrives in London
- Little Red Riding Hood’s Progress
- Little Red Riding Hood and Other Waterside Characters
Descriere
Argues that fairy stories, rather than operating outside of progressive modernity, significantly contributed to the language and images of industrial, material England.