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Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture By Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

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Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fairies to explain natural history at a time when 'nature' became a much debated word.

Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture Summary

Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fairies to explain natural history at a time when 'nature' became a much debated word.

Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture Reviews

A winner of the SAES/AFEA Research Prize, this rich and complex study brilliantly merges fairylands and scientific worlds. ... proves a compelling read, and a fascinating and valuable introduction to fields as diverse as nineteenth century's natural history, fantastic literature (not only for children) and Victorian culture at large. (Mara Mattoscio, Rivista di Studi Vittoriani, Vol. 40, 2017)

About Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

Laurence Talairach-Vielmas is Professor of English at the University of Toulouse, France, and Associate Researcher at Alexandre Koyre Center for the History of Science and Technology in Paris. Her research specializes on the relations between literature and science. She is the author of Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic (2009) and Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels (2007).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. From The Wonders of Nature to the Wonders of Evolution: Charles Kingsley's Nursery Fairies 2. 'How Are You To Enter The Fairy-Land of Science?': The Wonders of The Natural World in Arabella Buckley's Popular Science Works For Children 3. The Mechanization of Feelings: Mary de Morgan's Toy Princess 4. Nature Under Glass: Victorian Cinderellas, Magic and Metamorphosis 5. Nature Exposed: Charting the Wild Body in Little Red Riding Hood 6. Nature and the Natural World in Mary Louisa Molesworth's Christmas-Tree Land 7. Edith Nesbit's Fairies and Freaks of Nature: Environmental Consciousness in Five Children and It Epilogue Index

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NLS9781349465323
9781349465323
1349465321
Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
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Palgrave Macmillan
2014-01-01
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