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020 $a0195121996 (alk. paper)
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100 1 $aSilver, Carole G.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82051304
245 10 $aStrange and secret peoples :$bfairies and Victorian consciousness /$cCarole G. Silver.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c[1999], ©1999.
263 $a9811
300 $axiii, 272 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Greetings from Another World: Romantic Rediscoveries --$g1.$tOn the Origins of Fairies --$g2.$t"Come Away Thou Human Child": Abductions, Change, and Changelings --$g3.$t"East of the Sun and West of the Moon": Victorians and Fairy Brides --$g4.$tLittle Goblin Men: On Dwarfs and Pygmies, Racial Myths and Mythic Races --$g5.$tThe Faces of Evil: Fairies, Mobs, and Female Cruelty --$g6.$tFarewell to the Fairies.
520 $aTeeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources ranging from the anthropological, folkloric, and occult to the legal, historical, and medical.
520 8 $aShe is the first to anatomize a world peopled by strange beings who have infiltrated both the literary and visual masterpieces and the minor works of the writers and painters of that era.
650 0 $aFairies.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85046901
650 0 $aFolklore$zGreat Britain.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87001571
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xSocial conditions$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056943
650 0 $aLiterature and folklore$zGreat Britain.
650 0 $aBritish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
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