Overview
Nicola Bown's study reminds us that for the Victorians the fairy symbolized disenchantment with the irresistible forces of progress and modernity. As these forces stripped their world of its wonder, Victorians consoled themselves by dreaming of a place suffused with the enchantment that was disappearing from their own lives.
- | By (Author): Nicola (Birkbeck College, University of London) Bown
- | Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Sep 27, 2001
- | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
- | Number of Pages: 254 pages
- | Language: Not available
- | Binding: Hardback
- | ISBN-10: 0007233485
- | ISBN-13: 9780521793155