Title Fairy tales, natural history and Victorian culture / Laurence Talairach-Vielmas, Professor of English, University of Toulouse, France

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 217 pages.) Series Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture. Contents From the wonders of nature to the wonders of evolution: Charles Kingsley's nursery fairies -- 'How are you to enter the fairy-land of science?': the wonders of the natural world in Arabella Buckley's Popular Science Works For Children -- The mechanization of feelings: Mary de Morgan's 'A toy princess' -- Nature under glass: victorian Cinderellas, magic and metamorphosis -- Nature exposed: charting the wild body in 'Little Red Riding Hood' -- Nature and the natural world in Mary Louisa Molesworth's Christmas-Tree Land -- Edith Nesbit's fairies and freaks of nature: environmental consciousness in Five Children and It Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Literature and science -- England -- History -- 19th century. Fairy tales -- England -- History and criticism. Natural history in literature. Fairies in literature. SUBJECT England -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043304 Genre/Form Fiction. Form Electronic book Author Palgrave (Firm) ISBN 1137342404 (electronic bk.) 9781137342409 (electronic bk.) (hardback) (hardback)

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