This study of the Victorian fascination with fairies reveals their significance in Victorian art and literature. Nicola Bown explores what the fairy meant to the Victorians, and why they were so captivated by a figure which nowadays seems trivial and childish. She argues that fairies were a fantasy that allowed the Victorians to escape from their worries about science, technology and the effects of progress. The fairyland they dreamed about was a reconfiguration of their own world, and the fairies who inhabited it were like themselves.
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This study of the Victorian fascination with fairies reveals their significance in Victorian art and literature. Nicola Bown explores what the fairy meant to the Victorians, and why they were so captivated by a figure which nowadays seems trivial and childish. She argues that fairies were a fantasy that allowed the Victorians to escape from their worries about science, technology and the effects of progress. The fairyland they dreamed about was a reconfiguration of their own world, and the fairies who inhabited it were like themselves.
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'Whose is that?' 'Fuseli's' - La! What a frightful thing! Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fairy feller, fairy paintings, lively elves, small enchantments, fairy poetry, entangled bank, natural history illustration, last fairy, fairy belief, human spectator, fairy legends, industrial modernity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Richard Dadd, Royal Academy, Private Collection, Queen Mab, The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke, David Scott, Elsie Wright, Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare Gallery, Tate Gallery, Gillian Beer, Lucy Audley, Peter Pan, The Death of Cock Robin, The Garden of Earthly Delights, Fresh Water, Hard Times, Henry Fuseli, Rosamund Marriott Watson, Royal Scottish Academy, Susan Stewart, Cock Robin Defending, Fairies Sleeping, Lecture Four, National Gallery of Scotland New!
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fairy feller, fairy paintings, lively elves, small enchantments, fairy poetry, entangled bank, natural history illustration, last fairy, fairy belief, human spectator, fairy legends, industrial modernity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Richard Dadd, Royal Academy, Private Collection, Queen Mab, The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke, David Scott, Elsie Wright, Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare Gallery, Tate Gallery, Gillian Beer, Lucy Audley, Peter Pan, The Death of Cock Robin, The Garden of Earthly Delights, Fresh Water, Hard Times, Henry Fuseli, Rosamund Marriott Watson, Royal Scottish Academy, Susan Stewart, Cock Robin Defending, Fairies Sleeping, Lecture Four, National Gallery of Scotland New!
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- The Victorian Supernatural (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Nicola Bown in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Fuseli's Milton Gallery: 'Turning Readers into Spectators' (Oxford English Monographs) by Luisa Calï¿1/2 on page 174, and Back Matter
- Child Murder and British Culture, 1720-1900 by Josephine McDonagh in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture) by Christine Alexander in Back Matter
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