Author: Jeremiah Curtin
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World: Coll. from Oral Trad. in South-West Münster
Author: Jeremiah Curtin
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Tales of the Fairies and of the Ghost World
Author: Jeremiah Curtin
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
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Irish Tales of the Fairies and the Ghost World
Author: Jeremiah Curtin
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486411392
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Thirty beguiling stories of sprites and specters told to a Smithsonian ethnographer in 19th-century Ireland. "The Ghost of Sneem," "Tom Moore and the Seal Woman," "The Blood-Drawing Ghost," many more.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486411392
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Thirty beguiling stories of sprites and specters told to a Smithsonian ethnographer in 19th-century Ireland. "The Ghost of Sneem," "Tom Moore and the Seal Woman," "The Blood-Drawing Ghost," many more.
Strange and Secret Peoples
Author: Carole G. Silver
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195349377
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources ranging from the anthropological, folkloric, and occult to the legal, historical, and medical. She is the first to anatomize a world peopled by strange beings who have infiltrated both the literary and visual masterpieces and the minor works of the writers and painters of that era. Examining the period of 1798 to 1923, Strange and Secret Peoples focuses not only on such popular literary figures as Charles Dickens and William Butler Yeats, but on writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Charlotte Mew; on artists as varied as mad Richard Dadd, Aubrey Beardsley, and Sir Joseph Noel Paton; and on artifacts ranging from fossil skulls to photographs and vases. Silver demonstrates how beautiful and monstrous creatures--fairies and swan maidens, goblins and dwarfs, cretins and changelings, elementals and pygmies--simultaneously peopled the Victorian imagination and inhabited nineteenth-century science and belief. Her book reveals the astonishing complexity and fertility of the Victorian consciousness: its modernity and antiquity, its desire to naturalize the supernatural, its pervasive eroticism fused with sexual anxiety, and its drive for racial and imperial dominion.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195349377
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources ranging from the anthropological, folkloric, and occult to the legal, historical, and medical. She is the first to anatomize a world peopled by strange beings who have infiltrated both the literary and visual masterpieces and the minor works of the writers and painters of that era. Examining the period of 1798 to 1923, Strange and Secret Peoples focuses not only on such popular literary figures as Charles Dickens and William Butler Yeats, but on writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Charlotte Mew; on artists as varied as mad Richard Dadd, Aubrey Beardsley, and Sir Joseph Noel Paton; and on artifacts ranging from fossil skulls to photographs and vases. Silver demonstrates how beautiful and monstrous creatures--fairies and swan maidens, goblins and dwarfs, cretins and changelings, elementals and pygmies--simultaneously peopled the Victorian imagination and inhabited nineteenth-century science and belief. Her book reveals the astonishing complexity and fertility of the Victorian consciousness: its modernity and antiquity, its desire to naturalize the supernatural, its pervasive eroticism fused with sexual anxiety, and its drive for racial and imperial dominion.
The Bookman
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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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The Book Buyer
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
A Visit to Mrs. Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Author: Mrs. Burton Harrison
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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The Dial
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Przekładaniec, 2 (2010) vol 24 - English Version
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Publisher: Wydawnictwo UJ
ISBN: 8323386692
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher: Wydawnictwo UJ
ISBN: 8323386692
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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