| Description |
1 online resource |
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The fairies' farewell : Shakespeare's old wives' tales -- Caliban's masque : drollery, concupiscence, creativity -- The fairy way of writing -- Painting Shakespeare fantasy -- Rebellion in fairyland : the eve of St. Agnes -- Before and after literature : J.R.R. Tolkien |
| Summary |
This book seeks to explain the origins and popularity of enchantment in Shakespeare's plays. Writers John Dryden and Joseph Addison originated the phrase the "fairy way of writing" to define the concept of an English creative imagination founded on a synthesis of high literary culture and the popular culture of tales and superstitions. Beginning with Chaucer, Johnson, Dryden, and Milton, the author argues that the fairy way of writing not only sets the stage for the fairy tale, the Gothic novel, and children's literature, but also informs genres beyond the English canon, including French fairy tales, painting, and twentieth-century fantasy fiction. In addition to English writers and visual artists such as Pope, Blake, and Keats who were directly engaged with Shakespearean fantasy, the author also examines fairy tales, letters, and paintings by the French writers Madame d'Aulnoy, Charles Perrault, Madame de Sévigné, and the Swiss-born artist Johann Heinrich Füssli (Fuseli) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Fantasy literature, English -- History and criticism
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Supernatural in literature.
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National characteristics, English, in literature.
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Imagination in literature.
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Supernatural in art.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Fantasy literature, English
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Imagination in literature
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National characteristics, English, in literature
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Supernatural in art
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Supernatural in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012047016 |
| ISBN |
9781421410746 |
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1421410745 |
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1421410745 |
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