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- catalog abstract ""Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources ranging from the anthropological, folkloric, and occult to the legal, historical, and medical. She is the first to anatomize a world peopled by strange beings who have infiltrated both the literary and visual masterpieces and the minor works of the writers and painters of that era."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10865226.
- catalog coverage "Great Britain Social conditions 19th century.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources ranging from the anthropological, folkloric, and occult to the legal, historical, and medical. She is the first to anatomize a world peopled by strange beings who have infiltrated both the literary and visual masterpieces and the minor works of the writers and painters of that era."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-250) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Greetings from Another World: Romantic Rediscoveries -- 1. On the Origins of Fairies -- 2. "Come Away Thou Human Child": Abductions, Change, and Changelings -- 3. "East of the Sun and West of the Moon": Victorians and Fairy Brides -- 4. Little Goblin Men: On Dwarfs and Pygmies, Racial Myths and Mythic Races -- 5. The Faces of Evil: Fairies, Mobs, and Female Cruelty -- 6. Farewell to the Fairies.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 272 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0195121996 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain Social conditions 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "398.21 21".
- catalog subject "British literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Fairies.".
- catalog subject "Folklore Great Britain.".
- catalog subject "GR141 .S55 1999".
- catalog subject "Literature and folklore Great Britain.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Greetings from Another World: Romantic Rediscoveries -- 1. On the Origins of Fairies -- 2. "Come Away Thou Human Child": Abductions, Change, and Changelings -- 3. "East of the Sun and West of the Moon": Victorians and Fairy Brides -- 4. Little Goblin Men: On Dwarfs and Pygmies, Racial Myths and Mythic Races -- 5. The Faces of Evil: Fairies, Mobs, and Female Cruelty -- 6. Farewell to the Fairies.".
- catalog title "Strange and secret peoples : fairies and Victorian consciousness / Carole G. Silver.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".