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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Ohio State Univ Pr
Publication date
March 28, 2014
Pages
272
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
Cdr
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780814293485
ISBN-10
0814293484
Dimensions
0.25 by 6 by 9 in.
Original list price
$14.95
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
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In examining the relationship between fairy tales and Victorian culture, Molly Clark Hillard concludes that the Victorians were Âspellboundâ: novelists, poets, and playwrights were self-avowedly enchanted by these tales. At the same time, Spellbound: The Fairy Tale and the Victorians shows that literary genres were bound to the fairy tale and dependent on its forms and figures to make meaning. But these Âspellboundâ literary artists also feared that fairy tales exuded an originative power that pervaded and precluded authored work. In part to dispel the fairy taleâs potency, Victorians resolved this tension by treating the form as a nostalgic refuge from an industrial age, a quaint remnant of the pre-literacy of childhood and peasantry, and a form fit not for modern gentlemen but rather for old wives.
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Through close readings of the novels of Dickens, Eliot, and Charlotte Brontë; the poetry of Tennyson and Christina Rossetti; the visual artistry of Burne-Jones and Punch; and the popular theatricals of dramatists like Planche and Buckingham, Spellbound opens fresh territory into well-traversed titles of the Victorian canon. Hillard demonstrates that these literary forms were all cross-pollenated by the fairy tale and that their authors wereÂhowever reluctantlyÂpurveyors of disruptive fairy tale matter over which they had but imperfect control.
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Through close readings of the novels of Dickens, Eliot, and Charlotte Brontë; the poetry of Tennyson and Christina Rossetti; the visual artistry of Burne-Jones and Punch; and the popular theatricals of dramatists like Planche and Buckingham, Spellbound opens fresh territory into well-traversed titles of the Victorian canon. Hillard demonstrates that these literary forms were all cross-pollenated by the fairy tale and that their authors wereÂhowever reluctantlyÂpurveyors of disruptive fairy tale matter over which they had but imperfect control.
Editions
Hardcover
from Ohio State Univ Pr (March 28, 2014)
9780814212455 | details & prices | 278 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 0.75 in. | 1.12 lbs | List price $59.95
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Cdr edition from Ohio State Univ Pr (March 28, 2014)
9780814293485 | details & prices | 272 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.25 in. | 0.05 lbs | List price $14.95
About: In examining the relationship between fairy tales and Victorian culture, Molly Clark Hillard concludes that the Victorians were Âspellboundâ: novelists, poets, and playwrights were self-avowedly enchanted by these tales.
About: In examining the relationship between fairy tales and Victorian culture, Molly Clark Hillard concludes that the Victorians were Âspellboundâ: novelists, poets, and playwrights were self-avowedly enchanted by these tales.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Ohio State Univ Pr (June 1, 2016)
9780814252802 | details & prices | List price $27.95
About: In examining the relationship between fairy tales and Victorian culture, Molly Clark Hillard concludes that the Victorians were Âspellboundâ: novelists, poets, and playwrights were self-avowedly enchanted by these tales.
About: In examining the relationship between fairy tales and Victorian culture, Molly Clark Hillard concludes that the Victorians were Âspellboundâ: novelists, poets, and playwrights were self-avowedly enchanted by these tales.
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