The Victorian fantasists: essays on culture, society and belief in the mythopoeic fiction of the Victorian Age
1991; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 29; Issue: 04 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5860/choice.29-1985
ISSN1943-5975
Autores Tópico(s)Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
ResumoCount Dracula and the martians, R.J.Dingley heroine as hero - Morris's case against quest-romance in the water of the woundrous isles, Norman Talbot the education of desire - late 19th century Utopian fiction and its influence on 20th century feminist fantasy, Anne Cranny-Francis the realism of magic in the fantasy tradition of William Morris, Ken Goodwin toward a rhetoric of 19th century fantasy criticism - C.S.Lewis's critical readings of George MacDonald and William Morris, Bruce L.Edwards Jr George MacDonald and the poetics of realism, Stephen Prickett la belle dame sans merci - cultural criticism and mythopoeic vision in George MacDonald's Lilith, Kath Filmer silent house - on the complex meaning of silence within the soul as seen by George MacDonald and Emily Bronte, Adelheid Kegler Christina Rossetti and the gender politics of fantasy, Barbara Garlick uses of dream allergory by Charles Kingsley and Olive Schreiner, Roslynn D.Haynes the spectre of the self in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations, Kath Filmer happy endings in hard times and granny's wonderful chair, Alice Mills Richard Jefferies' vision of London, John Strugnell domesticating the supernatural - functions of magic in E.Nesbit's children's books, Elmar Schenkel.
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