Social Dreaming : Dickens and the Fairy Tale

ISBN-13: 9780415940184 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 220 str.

Elaine Ostry;Ostry Elaine

Opis

Dickens was known for his incredible imagination and fiery social protest. This study shows how Dickens used the fairy tale to express his political and social views and helped establish it as an important literary genre for the Victorian public.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Nurse’s Stories: Fairy Tales as Cultural Voices; Chapter 2 Frauds on the Fairies: Defending Fancy; Chapter 3 Monsters and Fairies, Homes and Wildernesses; Chapter 4 Dickens’s Christmas “Fairy Tales of Home”; Chapter 5 The Fairy Tale in Dickens’s Periodicals;

O autorze

William E. Cain, Elaine Ostry