| Description |
vi, 373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Refashioning Fairy Tales. The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood / Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Beauty and the Beast / Anne Thackeray Ritchie. The Brown Bull of Norrowa / Maria Louisa Molesworth. Amelia and the Dwarfs / Juliana Horatia Ewing -- Pt. 2. Subversions. Nick / Christina Rossetti. Christmas Crackers / Juliana Horatia Ewing. Behind the White Brick / Frances Hodgson Burnett. Melisande, or, Long and Short Division / E. Nesbit. Fortunatus Rex & Co / E. Nesbit -- Pt. 3. A Fantasy Novel. Mopsa the Fairy / Jean Ingelow -- Pt. 4. A Trio of Antifantasies. Speaking Likenesses / Christina Rossetti |
| Analysis |
English fiction Short stories |
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Fantasy fiction Short stories |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-373) |
| Subject |
Children's stories, English.
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English fiction -- Women authors.
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English fiction -- 19th century.
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Fairy tales -- Great Britain.
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Fantasy fiction, English.
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Author |
Auerbach, Nina, 1943-
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Knoepflmacher, U. C.
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| LC no. |
91031824 |
| ISBN |
0226032035 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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