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Strange and secret peoples

fairies and Victorian consciousness

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Teeming 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.

She 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.

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272

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Cover of: Strange and Secret Peoples
Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
September 18, 2000, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
Cover of: Strange and Secret Peoples
Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
1999, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: Strange and secret peoples
Strange and secret peoples: fairies and Victorian consciousness
1999, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: Strange and Secret Peoples
Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
December 4, 1998, Oxford University Press, USA
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-250) and index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
398.21
Library of Congress
GR141 .S55 1999, GR141.S55 1998, GR141 .S55 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 272 p. :
Number of pages
272

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL350928M
Internet Archive
strangesecretpeo00silv
ISBN 10
0195121996
LCCN
98010318
OCLC/WorldCat
38468468
Library Thing
21044
Goodreads
1524458

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Teeming 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. She 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.

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