Strange and secret peoples
Subtitle: fairies and Victorian consciousness
By: Carole G. Silver.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: Fairies; Folklore -- Great Britain; Literature and folklore -- Great Britain; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Description: Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources ranging from the anthropological, folkloric, and occult to the legal, historical, and medical.

She is the first to anatomize a world peopled by strange beings who have infiltrated both the literary and visual masterpieces and the minor works of the writers and painters of that era.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-250) and index.