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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Fairyland"”.
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Imaginary Forces: The Reformist Poetics of Victorian Fairyland
Imaginary Forces identifies the liberal, recursive mid-Victorian literary fairy tale as a specifically reformist institution, rather than as the subversive or reifying genre it is frequently claimed to be. The study argues that tales used romantic recastings of traditional forms to invigorate …
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In Fairyland Or Thereabout: The Fairies as Nationalist Symbol in Irish Literature by and after William Allingham
<p>This essay is a look at a little known Irish poet, William Allingham, who invokes the fairy as a vehicle for a political change in Ireland. It offers a close reading of a few of his poems as well as historically approaches the use of fairies in the popular culture of the nineteenth century. In …
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The puzzle of the indian boy in a Midsummer Night's Dream
… trivialisations of Oberon, Titania and fairyland are set aside in favour of historical analysis of England’s hopes for American empire which was made possible by Ralegh’s return with a real Indian prince.