Social Dreaming
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Social Dreaming

Dickens and the Fairy Tale

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Social Dreaming

Dickens and the Fairy Tale

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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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
ISBN
9781136717000
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. Chapter One Nurse's Stories: Fairy Tales as Cultural Voices
  9. Chapter Two Frauds on the Fairies: Defending Fancy
  10. Chapter Three Monsters and Fairies, Homes and Wildernesses
  11. Chapter Four Dickens's Christmas 'Fairy Tales of Home'
  12. Chapter Five The Fairy Tale in Dickens's Periodicals
  13. Appendix A Survey of Criticism on Dickens and the Fairy Tale
  14. Appendix B Perrault's Morals to 'Cinderella'
  15. Notes
  16. Works Consulted
  17. Index