{"product_id":"spellbound-molly-clark-hillard-9780814252802","title":"Spellbound: The Fairy Tale and the Victorians","description":"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, \u003ci\u003eSpellbound: The Fairy Tale and the Victorians\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePunch;\u003c\/i\u003e and the popular theatricals of dramatists like Planche and Buckingham, \u003ci\u003eSpellbound\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Molly Clark Hillard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081425280X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814252802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d","brand":"Molly Clark Hillard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44311046455551,"sku":"9780814252802","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e71bbdfc-398d-4cfb-b7cf-200404e32dab.jpg?v=1695720795","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/spellbound-molly-clark-hillard-9780814252802","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}