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Although fairies are now banished to the realm of childhood, these diminutive figures were central to the work of many Victorian painters, novelists, poets and even scientists. It would be no exaggeration to say that the Victorians were obsessed with fairies: yet this obsession has hitherto received little scholarly attention. Nicola Bown reminds us of the importance of fairies in Victorian culture. In the figure of the fairy, the Victorians crystallised contemporary anxieties about the effects of industrialisation, the remoteness of the past, the value of culture and the way in which science threatened to undermine religion and spirituality. Above all, the fairy symbolised disenchantment with the irresistible forces of progress and modernity. As these forces stripped the world of its wonder, the Victorians consoled themselves by dreaming of a place and people suffused with enchantment that was disappearing from their own lives.
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- Author/s Bown, Nicola
- ISBN13 9780521793155
- ISBN10 0521793157
- Pages 235
- Published 2001
Fairies in Nineteenth-century art and literature
- Author Nicola Bown
- Publisher CAMBRIDGE U.P
- ISBN 9780521793155
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