Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Palgrave Macmillan UK
e druk, 2014
9781349465323
Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture
Specificaties
Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK |
2014
ISBN13: 9781349465323
Rubricering
Onderdeel van serie
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
Gratis verzonden
Samenvatting
Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fairies to explain natural history at a time when 'nature' became a much debated word.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781349465323
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. From The Wonders of Nature to the Wonders of Evolution: Charles Kingsley's Nursery Fairies 2. 'How Are You To Enter The Fairy-Land of Science?': The Wonders of The Natural World in Arabella Buckley's Popular Science Works For Children 3. The Mechanization of Feelings: Mary de Morgan's Toy Princess 4. Nature Under Glass: Victorian Cinderellas, Magic and Metamorphosis 5. Nature Exposed: Charting the Wild Body in Little Red Riding Hood 6. Nature and the Natural World in Mary Louisa Molesworth's Christmas-Tree Land 7. Edith Nesbit's Fairies and Freaks of Nature: Environmental Consciousness in Five Children and It Epilogue Index