Author: Katharine Mary Briggs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tales
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
A Dictionary of British Folk-tales in the English Language
Author: Katharine Mary Briggs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tales
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tales
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
A Dictionary of British Folk-Tales in the English Language
Author: Katharine Mary Briggs
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge
ISBN: 9780415066952
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1472
Book Description
A classic in folklore scholarship arranged in 2 parts. Folk Narratives contains tales told for edification or delight, but not thought to be factually true.Folk Legends presents tales the tellers believed to be records of actual events. Part A - 978-0-415-06694-5
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge
ISBN: 9780415066952
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1472
Book Description
A classic in folklore scholarship arranged in 2 parts. Folk Narratives contains tales told for edification or delight, but not thought to be factually true.Folk Legends presents tales the tellers believed to be records of actual events. Part A - 978-0-415-06694-5
The Devil and the Victorians
Author: Sarah Bartels
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000348040
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
In recent decades, there has been a growing recognition of the significance of the supernatural in a Victorian context. Studies of nineteenth-century spiritualism, occultism, magic, and folklore have highlighted that Victorian England was ridden with spectres and learned magicians. Despite this growing body of scholarship, little historiographical work has addressed the Devil. This book demonstrates the significance of the Devil in a Victorian context, emphasising his pervasiveness and diversity. Drawing on a rich array of primary material, including theological and folkloric works, fiction, newspapers and periodicals, and broadsides and other ephemera, it uses the diabolic to explore the Victorians' complex and ambivalent relationship with the supernatural. Both the Devil and hell were theologically contested during the nineteenth century, with an increasing number of both clergymen and laypeople being discomfited by the thought of eternal hellfire. Nevertheless, the Devil continued to play a role in the majority of English denominations, as well as in folklore, spiritualism, occultism, popular culture, literature, and theatre. The Devil and the Victorians will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-century English cultural and religious history, as well as the darker side of the supernatural.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000348040
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
In recent decades, there has been a growing recognition of the significance of the supernatural in a Victorian context. Studies of nineteenth-century spiritualism, occultism, magic, and folklore have highlighted that Victorian England was ridden with spectres and learned magicians. Despite this growing body of scholarship, little historiographical work has addressed the Devil. This book demonstrates the significance of the Devil in a Victorian context, emphasising his pervasiveness and diversity. Drawing on a rich array of primary material, including theological and folkloric works, fiction, newspapers and periodicals, and broadsides and other ephemera, it uses the diabolic to explore the Victorians' complex and ambivalent relationship with the supernatural. Both the Devil and hell were theologically contested during the nineteenth century, with an increasing number of both clergymen and laypeople being discomfited by the thought of eternal hellfire. Nevertheless, the Devil continued to play a role in the majority of English denominations, as well as in folklore, spiritualism, occultism, popular culture, literature, and theatre. The Devil and the Victorians will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-century English cultural and religious history, as well as the darker side of the supernatural.
A Dictionary of British Folk--Tales in the English Language. Incorporating the F.J. Norton Collection. Part B Folk Legends
Author: Katharine M. Briggs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Reference Guide for English Studies
Author: Michael J. Marcuse
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2816
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520321871
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2816
Book Description
Musical Women in England, 1870-1914
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0312299346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Musical Women in England, 1870-1914 delineates the roles women played in the flourishing music world of late-Victorian and early twentieth-century England, and shows how contemporary challenges to restrictive gender roles inspired women to move into new areas of musical expression, both in composition and performance. The most famous women musicians were the internationally renowned stars of opera; greatly admired despite their violations of the prescribed Victorian linkage of female music-making with domesticity, the divas were often compared to the sirens of antiquity, their irresistible voices a source of moral danger to their male admirers. Their ambiguous social reception notwithstanding, the extraordinary ability and striking self-confidence of these women - and of pioneering female soloists on the violin, long an instrument permitted only to men - inspired fiction writers to feature musician heroines and motivated unprecedented numbers of girls and women to pursue advanced musical study. Finding professional orchestras almost fully closed to them, many female graduates of English conservatories performed in small ensembles and in all-female and amateur orchestras, and sought to earn their living in the overcrowed world of music teaching.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0312299346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Musical Women in England, 1870-1914 delineates the roles women played in the flourishing music world of late-Victorian and early twentieth-century England, and shows how contemporary challenges to restrictive gender roles inspired women to move into new areas of musical expression, both in composition and performance. The most famous women musicians were the internationally renowned stars of opera; greatly admired despite their violations of the prescribed Victorian linkage of female music-making with domesticity, the divas were often compared to the sirens of antiquity, their irresistible voices a source of moral danger to their male admirers. Their ambiguous social reception notwithstanding, the extraordinary ability and striking self-confidence of these women - and of pioneering female soloists on the violin, long an instrument permitted only to men - inspired fiction writers to feature musician heroines and motivated unprecedented numbers of girls and women to pursue advanced musical study. Finding professional orchestras almost fully closed to them, many female graduates of English conservatories performed in small ensembles and in all-female and amateur orchestras, and sought to earn their living in the overcrowed world of music teaching.
A Dictionary of British Folk-tales in the English Language
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780415066952
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1397
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780415066952
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1397
Book Description
Bibliography of British Folklore: Text
Author: John David Allison Widdowson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk literature, English
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folk literature, English
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
A dictionary of British folk-tales in the English language
Author: Katharine M. Briggs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780415066952
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780415066952
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
A Dictionary of British Folk-tales in the English Language
Author: Briggs, Katharine Mary Briggs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780415066945
Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages : 1397
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780415066945
Category : Legends
Languages : en
Pages : 1397
Book Description