Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture

Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

Springer, Dec 4, 2015 - Fiction - 217 pages

Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fairies to explain natural history at a time when 'nature' became a much debated word.

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Charles Kingsleys Nursery Fairies: 15
• The Wonders of the Natural World in Arabella Buckleys Popular Science Works for Children: 47
• Mary de Morgans A Toy Princess: 65
• Victorian Cinderellas Magic and Metamorphosis: 80
• Charting the Wild Body in Little Red Riding Hood: 101
• 6 Nature and the Natural World in Mary Louisa Molesworths ChristmasTree Land: 124
• Environmental Consciousness in Five Children and It: 141
• Epilogue: 160
• Notes: 163
• Bibliography: 195
• Index: 211

About the author

Laurence Talairach-Vielmas is Professor of English at the University of Toulouse, France, and Associate Researcher at Alexandre Koyré Center for the History of Science and Technology in Paris. Her research specializes on the relations between literature and science. She is the author of Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic (2009) and Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels (2007).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture; Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
• Author: Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Springer, 2015
• ISBN: 1137342404, 9781137342409
• Length: 217 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative; Literary Criticism / Children's & Young Adult Literature; Literary Criticism / European / General; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century; Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social; Social Science / General