Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co; Ashgate
Published: February 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780754657668
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; General; Literary Criticism
Description: The author argues that the tension between folk metaphysics and Enlightenment values produce the literary fantastic. Demonstrating that a negotiation with folklore was central to the canon of British literature, he explicates the complicated rhetoric associated with folklore fiction.