Victorian Fantasy

By Stephen Prickett

Far from being just children's literature, Victorian fantasyis an art form that flourished in opposition to the repressive social and intellectual conditions of "Victorianism." In this fully revised... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1932792309
• ISBN13: 9781932792300
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 5.8"

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A thoughtful and measured analysis of literature's voice in period history

Now in a second significantly revised and expanded edition, Victorian Fantasy is a discourse of the writing that flourished in direct response to the social and intellectual constrictions of "Victorianism". Author and library director Stephen Prickett explores how Victorian writers used nonrealistic techniques such as nonsense, dreams, visions, and fantastic world settings, to extend understanding of this world. Focusing on six writers - Lear, Carroll, Kingsley, MacDonald, Kipling, and Nesbit, Victorian Fantasy traces how their work developed, how they influenced one another, and how their fantasy came to question the rigid ideology of Victorian society. A thoughtful and measured analysis of literature's voice in period history.