Social Dreaming : Dickens and the Fairy Tale
by
Elaine Ostry
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in Major Literary Authors
ISBN-10
0415940184
ISBN-13
9780415940184
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 4th, 2002
Print length
220 Pages
Weight
570 grams
Dimensions
22.20 x 14.80 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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Dickens was known for his imagination and fiery social protest. This book shows how Dickens used the fairy tale to express his political and social views, and helped establish it as an important literary genre for the Victorian public.
Dickens was known for his incredible imagination and fiery social protest. In Social Dreaming , Elaine Ostry examines how these two qualities are linked through Dickens''s use of the fairy tale, a genre that infuses his work. To many Victorians, the fairy tale was not childish: it promoted the imagination and fancy in a materialistic, utilitarian world. It was a way of criticizing society so that everyone could understand. Like Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, Dickens used the fairy tale to promote his ideology. In this first book length study of Dickens''s use of the fairy tale as a social tool, Elaine Ostry applies exciting new criticism by Jack Zipes and Maria Tatar, among others, that examines the fairy tale in a socio-historical light to Dickens''s major works but also his periodicals-the most popular middle-class publications in Victorian times.
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