Title: Folklore and the fantastic in nineteenth-century British fiction
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.
Subjects: English Fantasy fiction, English fiction, Folklore in literature, History and criticism, Literature and folklore, Supernatural in literature, English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, Fantasy fiction, history and criticism, Horror tales, history and criticism, English Horror tales, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Mündliche Überlieferung, Das Fantastische, Prosa
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 19th century