Author: Allan CunninghamPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry
Author: Allan CunninghamTraditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry: Miles Colvine, the Cumberland mariner. Honest Man John Ochiltree. Elphin Irving, the fairies' cupbearer. Richard Faulder, mariner. The last lord of Helvellyn. Judith Macrone, the prophetess. The ghost with the golden casket. The haunted ships. Death of the Laird of Warlsworm. The seven foresters of Chatsworth : an ancient Derbyshire ballad
Author: Allan CunninghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Traditional Tales of the English and Scotish Peasantry
Author: Allan CunninghamPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368852280
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry
Author: Allan CunninghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Haddon Hall's Dorothy Vernon
Author: David TruttPublisher: David Trutt
ISBN:
Category : Derbyshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales
Author: George DouglasPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486411408
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Brownies, kelpies, mermen, trolls, and other supernatural creatures magically appear in a series of delightful tales to assist, annoy, and otherwise meddle in the lives of simple Scottish country folk.
Strange and Secret Peoples
Author: Carole G. SilverPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190286830
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources ranging from the anthropological, folkloric, and occult to the legal, historical, and medical. She is the first to anatomize a world peopled by strange beings who have infiltrated both the literary and visual masterpieces and the minor works of the writers and painters of that era. Examining the period of 1798 to 1923, Strange and Secret Peoples focuses not only on such popular literary figures as Charles Dickens and William Butler Yeats, but on writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Charlotte Mew; on artists as varied as mad Richard Dadd, Aubrey Beardsley, and Sir Joseph Noel Paton; and on artifacts ranging from fossil skulls to photographs and vases. Silver demonstrates how beautiful and monstrous creatures--fairies and swan maidens, goblins and dwarfs, cretins and changelings, elementals and pygmies--simultaneously peopled the Victorian imagination and inhabited nineteenth-century science and belief. Her book reveals the astonishing complexity and fertility of the Victorian consciousness: its modernity and antiquity, its desire to naturalize the supernatural, its pervasive eroticism fused with sexual anxiety, and its drive for racial and imperial dominion.
The Fairies in Tradition and Literature
Author: Katharine Mary BriggsPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415286015
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This remarkable book explores the history of fairies in literature and tradtion.
Haddon Hall's Poems
Author: Publisher: David Trutt
ISBN:
Category : Derbyshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Cultivating Belief
Author: Sebastian LecourtPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198812493
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This book explores how a group of Victorian literary writers - including George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Matthew Arnold - became interested in the emerging anthropology of religion, which sought to explain religion not in terms of doctrines or beliefs but as a function of race or ethnicity.