The fantastic sublime : romanticism and transcendence in nineteenth-century children's fantasy literature
This study begins with a look at works by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, focusing on the 18th-century view of childhood and fantasy. It expands on the notion that English Romanticism played a significant role in preparing adults to accept fantasy literature for children.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
vi, 160 s.
9780313300844, 0313300844
185705709
Romanticism, Childhood, Fairy Tales and the World of the Spirit Puer Aeternus, the Divine Child "Old" Fairy Tales and the "New" Romantic Child The Moral Tale and the Fairy Tale The Consubstantial World of Faery The Wind from Beyond the World The "Correspondent Breeze" From the Romantic to the Fantastic Sublime The Fantastic Sublime in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows The Fantastic Sublime in George MacDonald's At the Back of the North Wind Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and the Feminine Rereading of the Fantastic Sublime The Price of Fairy Fruit in Goblin Market The Domesticated Sublime in Frankenstein The Imagination Unbound in Goblin Market Difference and Common Ground Bibliography Index