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Strange and Secret Peoples

by Carole G. Silver
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Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sourcesranging from the anthropological, folkloric, and occult to the legal, historical, and medical. She is the first to anatomize a world peopled by strange beings who have infiltrated both the literary and visual masterpieces and the minor works of the writers and painters of that era. Examining 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, AubreyBeardsley, and Sir Joseph Noel Paton; and on artifacts ranging from fossil skulls to photographs and vases...

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Publisher: Oxford University Press

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  • Release date: February 27, 2007

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  • ISBN: 9780198028468
  • Release date: February 27, 2007

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  • ISBN: 9780198028468
  • File size: 22083 KB
  • Release date: February 27, 2007
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Language Arts Nonfiction

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Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sourcesranging from the anthropological, folkloric, and occult to the legal, historical, and medical. She is the first to anatomize a world peopled by strange beings who have infiltrated both the literary and visual masterpieces and the minor works of the writers and painters of that era. Examining 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, AubreyBeardsley, and Sir Joseph Noel Paton; and on artifacts ranging from fossil skulls to photographs and vases...

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Language Arts Nonfiction