Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture [electronic resource] /
Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence.author.
Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fairies to explain natural history at a time when 'nature' became a much debated word.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 From the Wonders of Nature to the Wonders of Evolution: Charles Kingsley's Nursery Fairies; The romance of natural history; 'A Mere Advertiser of Nature's Wonders': fairy tales and children's education in Victorian England; Put-them-all-in-spirits: collecting impossible monsters in The Water-Babies, a Fairy Tale for a Land Baby; 2 '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; Once upon a time: picturing the invisible
Buckley's evolutionary epic: from the fairy messengers to the natural ecosystem3 The Mechanization of Feelings: Mary de Morgan's 'A Toy Princess'; Mary Augusta de Morgan, women and the scientific world; Scientific progress and the reinvention of nature: the wonders of automata; 4 Nature under Glass: Victorian Cinderellas, Magic and Metamorphosis; The magic realm of world exhibitions; Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie's Cinderella - collector and consumer; Behind glass panels: framing desire, taming nature; 5 Nature Exposed: Charting the Wild Body in 'Little Red Riding Hood'
Fairy tales, women and natureConsumption and defloration in Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie's rewriting; Pussy and the Wolf: the case of Harriet Louisa Childe-Pemberton; 6 Nature and the Natural World in Mary Louisa Molesworth's Christmas-Tree Land; Fairy stories, animal stories and children's literature; Framing fairy stories: fancy as a dangerous territory; Reconnecting with nature; 7 Edith Nesbit's Fairies and Freaks of Nature: Environmental Consciousness in Five Children and It; Extinct creatures and natural wonders: mediating the science lesson
Extinction in nineteenth-century children's literatureNesbit's hairy fairy: extinction and imperialism; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fairies to explain natural history at a time when 'nature' became a much debated word.
Fiction.
Literature—Philosophy.
Children's literature.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
British literature.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Fiction.
Literary Theory.
Children's Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
British and Irish Literature.
Cultural Theory.