Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
10 best books like Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness (Carole G. Silver): The Owl, the Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, The Water of the Wondrous Isles, Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and Elves, Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers, Meeting the Other Crowd, Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, The Science of Fairy Tales: an Enquiry Into Fairy Mythology, At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things, The Fairies in Tradition and Literature
| Author | G. Ronald Murphy |
| ISBN | 0195151690 |
The fairy tales collected by the brothers Grimm are among the best known and most widely-read stories in western literature. In recent years commentators such as Bruno Bettelheim have, usually from a psychological perspective, pondered the underlying meaning of the stories, why children are so...
| Author | W.Y. Evans-Wentz |
| ISBN | 1564147088 |
When I lived in a cabin in Big Sur, I holed up with a copy of Fairy-Faith. It awakened me to the reality of subtle beings indwelling the immense silence of the redwood forests.
Evans-Wenz, who was a friend of Yeats, takes a half-poetic, half-anthropological approach. The most exciting passages...
| Author | William Morris |
| ISBN | 1419187414 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
| Author | Jack D. Zipes |
| ISBN | 0415901405 |
The title of this compilation was misleading. I was expecting fairy tales that somehow turned paradigms on their heads or something that was more of a "revolt." However, this is instead a series of short fairy-tales that were selected to show how this genre was viewed through the Victorian era (e.g.,...
| Author | Nina Auerbach |
| ISBN | 0226032043 |
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...
| Author | Eddie Lenihan |
| ISBN | 0717136590 |
The Other Crowd', 'The Good People', 'The Wee Folk' and 'Them' are a few of the names given to the fairies by people in Ireland. Honoured for their gifts and feared for their wrath, the fairies remind us to respect both the world we live in and forces we cannot see.
In Meeting the Other Crowd, Eddie...
| Author | Catherine Orenstein |
| ISBN | 0465041264 |
In Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked, Catherine Orenstein reveals for the first time the intricate sexual politics, moral ambiguities, and philosophical underpinnings of Red Riding Hood's epic journey to her grandmother's house, and how, from the nursery on, fairy tales influence our view of the...
| Author | Edwin Sidney Hartland |
Book Description:
"A fairy (also fey or fae or faerie; collectively, wee folk, good folk, people of peace, and other euphemisms) is the name given to an alleged metaphysical spirit or supernatural being.
The fairy is based on the fae of medieval Western European (Old French) folklore...
| Author | Diane Purkiss |
| ISBN | 0814766838 |
At the Bottom of the Garden is a history of fairies from the ancient world to the present. Steeped in folklore and fantasy, it is a rich and diverse account of the part that fairies and fairy stories have played in culture and society.
The pretty pastel world of gauzy-winged things who grant wishes...
| Author | Katharine M. Briggs |
| ISBN | 0415286018 |
Fairies fascinate young and old alike. To some they offer tantalizing glimpses of other worlds. to others a subversive counterpoint to human arrogance and weakness. Like no other author. Katharine Briggs throughout her work communicated the thrill and delight of the world of fairies. and in this...
| Author | Janet Bord |
| ISBN | 0440226120 |
Hordes of tiny people playing at a spot in Wales called "Fairies Bog"...an impossibly tiny shoe found in Ireland...fairy dust discovered on Mount Shasta, California...the wondrous sighting of a winged woman inside a rose.
These and many more astounding accounts offer tangible evidence...
| Author | Marina Warner |
| ISBN | 0374223017 |
No Go the Bogeyman considers the enduring presence and popularity of figures of male terror, establishing their origins in mythology and their current relation to ideas about sexuality and power, youth and age. Songs, stories, images, and films about frightening monsters have always been invented...
| Author | Robert Kirk |
| ISBN | 1590171772 |
"Kirk is a magnificent dish to set before any student of either folk-lore or folk-psychology." — Times Literary Supplement
In the late 17th century, a Scottish minister went looking for supernatural creatures of "a middle nature betwixt man and angel." Robert Kirk roamed the Highlands, talking...
| Author | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| ISBN | 0803266553 |
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, best known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes but also a devout spiritualist, was entirely convinced by a set of photographs seemingly showing two young girls playing with a group of tiny, translucent fairies.
To demonstrate his unshakable belief in the spirit world,...
| Author | Walter Burkert |
| ISBN | 0520058755 |
What is it about animal sacrifice that makes otherwise staid European scholars and experts on go ape-shit crazy and start fantasizing about primal violence and making up strange myths of their own? I liked this book, actually, it's fun, but it's in a certain tradition, ranging from Robertson Smith...
| Author | Marie-Louise von Franz |
| ISBN | 0877739749 |
Fairy tales seem to be innocent stories, yet they contain profound lessons for those who would dive deep into their waters of meaning. In this book, Marie-Louise von Franz uncovers some of the important lessons concealed in tales from around the world, drawing on the wealth of her knowledge of folklore,...
| Author | W. Travis Hanes III |
| ISBN | 1402201494 |
In this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839??1842 and 1856??1860 between Britain and China are recounted for the first time through the eyes of the Chinese as well as the Imperial West. Opium entered China during the Middle Ages when Arab traders brought it into China for medicinal purposes....
| Author | Elizabeth Prettejohn |
| ISBN | 0691070571 |
Though always controversial in art circles, the Pre-Raphaelites have also always been extremely popular with museum goers. This accessible new study provides the most comprehensive view of the movement to date. It shows us why, a century and a half later, Pre-Raphaelite art retains its power to fascinate,...
Cunning-folk were local practitioners of magic, providing small-scale but valued service to the community. They were far more representative of magical practice than the arcane delvings of astrologers and necromancers. Mostly unsensational in their approach, cunning-folk helped people with...
| Author | Emma Wilby |
| ISBN | 1845190793 |
In the hundreds of confessions relating to witchcraft and sorcery trials from early modern Britain we frequently find detailed descriptions of intimate working relationships between popular magical practitioners and familiar spirits of either human or animal form. Until recently historians...
| Author | Claude Lecouteux |
| ISBN | 0892810963 |
Reveals the true nature of medieval belief in the Double of the Soul
• Demonstrates the survival of a pagan belief that each individual owns three souls, including a double that can journey outside the physical body
• Explains the nature of death and the Other World hidden beneath...
| Author | Lyle Saxon |
| ISBN | 0882896458 |
my feelings toward this anthology are as complex as my feelings toward the deep south.
upon reading it, there were various chapters that inspired feelings of a nostalgic homecoming -- the voices in the tales are rich and true and sing out history in tones that are completely unique...
