Fairies in Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature

This study of the Victorian fascination with fairies reveals their significance in Victorian art and literature. Nicola Bown explores what the fairy meant to the Victorians, and why they were so captivated by a figure which nowadays seems trivial and childish. She argues that fairies were a fantasy that allowed the Victorians to escape from their worries about science, technology and the effects of progress. The fairyland they dreamed about was a reconfiguration of their own world, and the fairies who inhabited it were like themselves.

Author: Nicola Bown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/27/2001
Pages: 254
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780521793155

About the Author
Bown, Nicola: - Nicola Bown is a lecturer in the Department of English at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has published articles in Textual Practice, Women: A Cultural Review, and the Journal of Victorian Culture, and worked for the Royal Academy on their Victorian Fairy Paintings show. This is her first book.