FAIRIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART AND LITERATURE by Bown, Nicola ISBN 0521793157
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Examines the fairy in the work of many Victorian painters, novelists and poets.
Although fairies are now banished to the realm of childhood, these diminutive figures were central to the work of many Victorian painters, novelists, poets and even scientists. It would be no exaggeration to say that the Victorians were obsessed with fairies: yet this obsession has hitherto received little scholarly attention. Nicola Bown reminds us of the importance of fairies in Victorian culture. In the figure of the fairy, the Victorians crystallised contemporary anxieties about the effects of industrialisation, the remoteness of the past, the value of culture and the way in which science threatened to undermine religion and spirituality. Above all, the fairy symbolised disenchantment with the irresistible forces of progress and modernity. As these forces stripped the world of its wonder, the Victorians consoled themselves by dreaming of a place and a people suffused with the enchantment that was disappearing from their own lives.
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FAIRIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART AND LITERATURE
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Bown, Nicola
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0521793157
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27/09/2001
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Cambridge University Press
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hardback
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45 (GBP)
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