National Dreams : : The Remaking of Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century England / / Jennifer Schacker.

Fairy tales and folktales have long been mainstays of children's literature, celebrated as imaginatively liberating, psychologically therapeutic, and mirrors of foreign culture. Focusing on the fairy tale in nineteenth-century England, where many collections found their largest readership, Nati...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]
©2003
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.) :; 26 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. The Household Tales in the Household Library: Edgar Taylor's German Popular Stories
  • Chapter 3. Everything Is in the Telling: T. Crofton Croker's Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland
  • Chapter 4. Otherness and Otherworldliness: Edward W. Lane's Arabian Nights
  • Chapter 5. The Dreams of the Younger Brother: George Webbe Dasenfs Popular Tales from the Norse
  • Chapter 6. Conclusion:Dreams
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments