This book examines the fairy in the work of many Victorian painters, novelists and poets.

Jason Marc Harris's ambitious book argues that the tensions between folk metaphysics and Enlightenment values produce the literary fantastic. Demonstrating that

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How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? This volume explores the per

Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as w