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The Victorian press and the fairy tale

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Victorian press and the fairy taleCaroline Sumpter.
Author:	Sumpter, Caroline.
Published:	Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2008.
Description:	xii, 254 p. :ill.
Series:	Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture
Subject:	English fictionHistory and criticism.19th century
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230227644

The Victorian press and the fairy tale
Sumpter, Caroline.

The Victorian press and the fairy tale[electronic resource] /Caroline Sumpter. - Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2008. - xii, 254 p. :ill. - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-238) and index.

List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Serializing Scheherazade: An Alternative Historyof the Fairy Tale -- Myths of Origin: Folktale Scholarship and Fictional Invention in Magazines forChildren -- Science and Superstition, Realism and Romance: Fairy Tale and Fantasy in the Adult Shilling Monthly -- 'I wonder were the fairies Socialists?': The Politics of the Fairy Tale in the 1890sLabour Press -- 'All art is once surface and symbol': Fairy Tales and the Fin-de-Sèicle Little Magazines -- Conclusion: Myth in the Marketplace -- Notes -- Bibliography --Index.

Victorian writers often claimed that the press was killing the fairytale. In fact, it ensuredthe genre's popularity, bringing literary tales and folklore to the first mass readerships. Exploring penny weeklies, adult and children's monthlies, little magazines and the labour press, this innovative study is the first to combine media and fairy tale history. Bringing reading communities back into focus, Sumpter explores ingenious political uses of the fairy tale: in debates over socialism, evolution and race, and in the context of women's rights, decadence andgay culture. The book offers new insights into the popularisation of folklore and comparative science, and also recovers neglectedvisual material. From the fantasies of Kingsley, MacDonald and J. H. Ewing to thewritings of Keir Hardie, Laurence Housman and Yeats, Sumpter reveals that the fairy tale was intimately shaped by thepress, and that both were at the heart of nineteenth-century culture.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230227644

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230227644doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

178123
English fiction
--History and criticism.--19th centuryIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PR878.F27 / S86 2008eb

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.809

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