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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, Spellbound: The Fairy Tale and the Victorians shows that litera...

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Main Author: Hillard, Molly Clark, 1971-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Nostalgia, literacy, and the fairy tale
  • The novelist and the collector
  • Pickwick Papers and the end of miscellany
  • The natural history of Thornfield
  • Antiquity, novelty, and 'The Key to All Mythologies'
  • Sleeping Beauty and Victorian temporality
  • Keats on sleep and beauty
  • "A perfect form in perfect rest" : Tennyson's "Day dream"
  • Burne-Jones and the poetic frame
  • Fairy footsteps and goblin economies
  • The Great Exhibition : Fairy Palace, Goblin Market
  • Rossetti's homeopathy
  • Little Red Riding Hood arrives in London
  • Little Red Riding Hood's progress
  • Little Red Riding Hood and other waterside characters
  • Conclusion. Andrew Lang, collaboration, and fairy tale methodologies.