Social Dreaming: Dickens and the Fairy Tale
Author:   Elaine Ostry
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780415866989


Pages:   220
Publication Date:   21 August 2013
Format:   Paperback
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Social Dreaming: Dickens and the Fairy Tale


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Dickens was known for his incredible imagination and fiery social protest. In Social Dreaming , Elaine Ostry examines how these two qualities are linked through Dickens's use of the fairy tale, a genre that infuses his work. To many Victorians, the fairy tale was not childish: it promoted the imagination and fancy in a materialistic, utilitarian world. It was a way of criticizing society so that everyone could understand. Like Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, Dickens used the fairy tale to promote his ideology. In this first book length study of Dickens's use of the fairy tale as a social tool, Elaine Ostry applies exciting new criticism by Jack Zipes and Maria Tatar, among others, that examines the fairy tale in a socio-historical light to Dickens's major works but also his periodicals-the most popular middle-class publications in Victorian times.

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Author:   Elaine Ostry
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.410kg
ISBN:  

9780415866989


ISBN 10:   0415866987
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   21 August 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Nurse’s Stories: Fairy Tales as Cultural Voices; Chapter 2 Frauds on the Fairies: Defending Fancy; Chapter 3 Monsters and Fairies, Homes and Wildernesses; Chapter 4 Dickens’s Christmas “Fairy Tales of Home”; Chapter 5 The Fairy Tale in Dickens’s Periodicals;

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