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Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
Carole G. SilverExamining the period of 1798 to 1923, Strange and Secret Peoples focuses not only on such popular literary figures as Charles Dickens and William Butler Yeats, but on writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Charlotte Mew; on artists as varied as mad Richard Dadd, Aubrey Beardsley, and Sir Joseph Noel Paton; and on artifacts ranging from fossil skulls to photographs and vases. Silver demonstrates how beautiful and monstrous creatures--fairies and swan maidens, goblins and dwarfs, cretins and changelings, elementals and pygmies--simultaneously peopled the Victorian imagination and inhabited nineteenth-century science and belief. Her book reveals the astonishing complexity and fertility of the Victorian consciousness: its modernity and antiquity, its desire to naturalize the supernatural, its pervasive eroticism fused with sexual anxiety, and its drive for racial and imperial dominion.
Literary Awards: Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Myth and Fantasy Studies (2000)
tags: nonfiction | history | cultural history | folklore | fairy tales | fairies | academic | research | Victorian | folklore Great Britain | Great Britain - social conditions | 19th Century | history and criticism | anthropology | sociology | culture | art |
Carole G. Silver is Professor of English and holds the Humanities Chair at Yeshiva University (Stern College)
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