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Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers
As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's adaptations of "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" to Christina Rossetti's unsettling antifantasies in Speaking Likenesses, these are breathtaking acts of imaginat...more
Paperback, 380 pages
Published
November 1st 1993
by University Of Chicago Press
(first published June 8th 1992)
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This a collection of fairy and fantasy tales by nineteenth-century women, accompanied by an introductory essay on the genre. It would be a good text for a course on gender or 19th-century lit, but is also perfectly accessible for a casual reader of fairy tales.
A wonderful collection, coupled with insightful commentaries by the editors on all the stories.
Dec 19, 2012
Melinda Belle Harrison
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