The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale

This book offers a new history of the fairy tale, revealing the creative role of periodical publication in shaping this popular genre. Sumpter explores the fairy tale's reinvention for (and by) diverse readerships in unexpected contexts, including debates over evolution, colonialism, socialism, gender and sexuality and decadence.

Author: C. Sumpter
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 07/24/2008
Pages: 254
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780230518056

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 01/09/2009 pg. 18

About the Author
CAROLINE SUMPTER Lecturer in Victorian Literature at Queen's University, Belfast, UK. She has written on nineteenth-century literature, science and culture in journals including Victorian Studies, Literature and History, Media History, Cultural and Social History and Nineteenth-Century Contexts.