Victorian FantasyFar from being just children's literature, Victorian Fantasy is an art form that flourished in opposition to the repressive social and intellectual conditions of Victorianism. In this fully revised and expanded edition, Stephen Prickett explores the way in which Victorian writers used non-realistic techniques--nonsense, dreams, visions, and the creation of other worlds--to extend our understanding of this world. In particular, Prickett focuses on six writers (Lear, Carroll, Kingsley, MacDonald, Kipling, and Nesbit), tracing the development of their art form, their influences on each other, and how these writers used fantasy to question the ideology of Victorian culture and society. |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Evolution of a Word | 5 |
Christmas as Scrooges | 37 |
Dreams and Nightmares | 71 |
Consensus and Nonsense Lear and Carroll | 109 |
Adults in Allegory Land Kingsley and MacDonald | 139 |
From Bildungsroman to DeathRomance Phantastes Lilith and German Romanticism | 173 |
Worlds within Worlds Kipling and Nesbit | 205 |
Notes | 241 |
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| Title | Victorian Fantasy Provost series |
| Authors | Regius Professor of English Literature Stephen Prickett, Stephen Prickett |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Baylor University Press, 2005 |
| ISBN | 1932792309, 9781932792300 |
| Length | 288 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
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