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The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and CulturePublication details: UK Palgrave Macmillan 2012Description: 254ISBN:
  • 9780230361492
DDC classification:
  • 823.809375/SUM
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book offers a new history of the fairy tale, revealing the creative role of periodical publication in shaping this popular genre. Sumpter explores the fairy tale's reinvention for (and by) diverse readerships in unexpected contexts, including debates over evolution, colonialism, socialism, gender and sexuality and decadence.

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Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface to Paperback
  • Acknowledgements
  • Serializing Scheherazade: An Alternative History of the Fairy Tale
  • Myths of Origin: Folktale Scholarship and Fictional Invention in Magazines for Children
  • Science and Superstition, Realism and Romance: Fairy Tale and Fantasy in the Adult Shilling Monthly
  • 'I wonder were the fairies Socialists?': The Politics of the Fairy Tale in the 1890s Labour Press
  • 'All art is once surface and symbol': Fairy Tales and the Fin-de-Siÿcle Little Magazines
  • Conclusion: Myth in the Marketplace
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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