Title: Folklore in British literature
Description: "Folklore provides a metaphor for insecurity in British women's writing published between 1750 and 1880. When characters feel uneasy about separations between races, classes, or sexes, they speak of mermaids and "Cinderella" to make threatening women unreal and thus harmless. Because supernatural creatures change constantly, a name or story from folklore merely reinforces fears about empire, labor, and desire. To illustrate these fascinating rhetorical strategies, this book explores works by Sarah Fielding, Ann Radcliffe, Sydney Owenson, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Anne Thackeray, and Jean Ingelow, pushing our understanding of allusions to folktales, fairy tales, and myths beyond "happily ever after.""--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: English fiction, Folklore in literature, History, History and criticism, Literature and folklore, Narration (Rhetoric), Women and literature, Women authors, English fiction, history and criticism, 19th century, English fiction, women authors
Places: Great Britain
Time periods: 18th century, 19th century