Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 An Introduction to Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Literature; Chapter 2 Victorian Literary Fairy Tales: Their Folklore and Function; Chapter 3 Victorian Fairy-Tale Fantasies: MacDonald's Fairyland and Barrie's Neverland; Chapter 4 MacDonald's; Lilith; and; Phantastes; : In Pursuit of the Soul in Fairyland; Chapter 5 James Hogg's Use of Legend: Folk Metaphysics and Narrative Authority; Chapter 6 Ghosts, "Grand Ladies," "The Gentry," and "Good Neighbors": Folkloric Representations of the Spirit World's Intersection with Class and Racial Tensions in Le Fanu; Chapter 7 Robert Louis Stevenson: Folklore and Imperialism; Chapter 8 William Carleton and William Sharp: The Celtic Renaissance and Fantastic Folklore; Chapter 9 Conclusion: Second Sight;

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• Literatura: história e crítica
• Estudos literários: c 1800 a c 1900
• Estudos literários: desde ~ 1900
• Estudos de literatura infantil : geral

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