Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521025508)

This study of the Victorian fascination with fairies reveals their significance in Victorian art and literature. Nicola Bown explores what the fairy meant to the Victorians, and why they were so captivated by a figure which nowadays seems trivial and childish. She argues that fairies were a fantasy that allowed the Victorians to escape from their worries about science, technology and the effects of progress. The fairyland they dreamed about was a reconfiguration of their own world, and the fairies who inhabited it were like themselves.

Author: Nicola Bown
ISBN-10: 0521025508
ISBN-13: 9780521025508
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/30/2006
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d