This book, now with a new preface, offers a new history of the fairy tale, revealing the creative role of periodical publication in shaping this genre. Sumpter explores the fairy tale's reinvention for (and by) diverse readerships inunexpected contexts, including debates over evolution, colonialism, socialism, gender and sexuality and decadence. CAROLINE SUMPTER Lecturer in Victorian Literature at Queen's University, Belfast, UK. She has written on nineteenth-century literature, science and culture in journals including 'Victorian Studies', 'Literature and History', 'Media History', 'Cultural and Social History' and 'Nineteenth-Century Contexts'. INDICE: List of Illustrations - Preface to Paperback - Acknowledgements - Serializing Scheherazade: An Alternative History of the Fairy Tale - Myths of Origin: Folktale Scholarship and Fictional Invention in Magazines for Children- Science and Superstition, Realism and Romance: Fairy Tale and Fantasy in the Adult Shilling Monthly - 'I wonder were the fairies Socialists?': The Politics of the Fairy Tale in the 1890s Labour Press - 'All art is once surface and symbol': Fairy Tales and the 'Fin-de-Siècle 'Little Magazines - Conclusion: Myth in the Marketplace - Notes - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-36149-2
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 20/01/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés