Spellbound: The Fairy Tale and the Victorians - Couverture souple

Hillard, Molly Clark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 081425280X ISBN 13 : 9780814252802

Editeur : Ohio State University Press, 2016

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Molly Clark Hillard is assistant professor of English at Seattle University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ohio State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081425280X
• ISBN 13: 9780814252802
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 290
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible