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1 online resource (198 pages) : illustrations |
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The household tales in the household library: Edgar Taylor's German popular stories -- Everything is in the telling: T. Crofton Croker's fairy legends and traditions of the south of Ireland -- Otherness and otherworldliness: Edward W. Lane's Arabian nights -- The dreams of the younger brother: George Webbe Dasent's popular tales from the Norse -- Conclusion: dreams |
| Summary |
Fairy tales and folktales have long been mainstays of children's literature, celebrated as imaginatively liberating, psychologically therapeutic, and mirrors of foreign culture. Focusing on the fairy tale in nineteenth-century England, where many collections found their largest readership, National Dreams examines influential but critically neglected early experiments in the presentation of international tale traditions to English readers. Jennifer Schacker looks at such wondrous story collections as Grimms' fairy tales and The Arabian Nights in order to trace the larger stories of cross-cultural encounter in which these books were originally embedded. Examining aspects of publishing history alongside her critical readings of tale collections' introductions, annotations, story texts, and illustrations, Schacker's National Dreams reveals the surprising ways fairy tales shaped and were shaped by their readers |
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First paperback edition |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-188) and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Fairy tales -- England -- History and criticism
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Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism
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Children's stories, English -- History and criticism
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Popular literature -- England -- History and criticism
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Books and reading -- England -- History -- 19th century
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English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Fairy tales -- Adaptations -- History and criticism
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Fairy tales in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Books and reading
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Children's stories, English
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English fiction
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Fairy tales
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Fairy tales -- Adaptations
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Fantasy fiction, English
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Fairy tales in literature
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Popular literature
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England
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780812204162 |
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0812204166 |
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