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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... Dante from the Car, 1824–1827. Illustration to Purgatory, Cantos 29–30 of Dante's Divine Comedy. Watercolor, 37.2 x 52.7 cm. Used by permission from the Tate Gallery, London/Art Resource, NY. First published in 1979 by THE HARVESTER ...
... Dante from the Car, 1824–1827. 24 1.4 John Martin: Satan and the Rebel Angels Bridging Chaos (Milton, Paradise Lost X:312–47). 26 1.5 John Martin: Satan Addressing the Rebel Angels (Milton, Paradise Lost 1:314). 27 1.6 Gustave Doré ...
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