Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers
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Book Description
As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's adaptations of "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" to Christina Rossetti's unsettling antifantasies in Speaking Likenesses, these are breathtaking acts of imaginative freedom, by turns amu... More
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Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Binding | Hardcover (3 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 380 |
ISBN-10 | 0226032035 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0226032030 |
Publication Date | 06/08/1992 |
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About U. C. Knoepflmacher (Editor) : U. C. Knoepflmacher is a published author and an editor. Some of the published credits of U. C. Knoepflmacher include A Little Princess (Penguin Classics), Ventures into Childland: Victorians, Fairy T... more
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