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- ISBN 9781789141207
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 16 Sep 2019
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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How dangerous were fairies? In the late seventeenth century, they could still scare people to death. Little wonder, as they were thought to be descended from fallen angels, and to have the power to destroy the world itself. Such beliefs, along with some remarkably detailed sightings, lingered on well into the twentieth century.
In literature and art fairies often retained this edge of danger. From the wild magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, through the dark glamour of Keats, to the improbably erotic poem ‘Goblin Market’ or the paintings inspired by opium dreams, the amoral otherness of the fairies ran side-by-side with the newly delicate or feminized creations of the Victorian world. In the past thirty years the enduring link between fairies and nature has been robustly exploited by eco-warriors and conservationists, from Ireland to Iceland. This book, now available in paperback, tells the story of the many fairy terrors that lay behind Titania or Tinkerbell.
Richard Sugg is the author of 18 books, including Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires (3rd edn, 2020), The Real Vampires (2023), Talking Dirty: A History of Disgust from Jesus Christ to Boris Johnson (2023) and Dogsygen (2024). Impossible Journeys: How Dogs Reinvented Love, Family and Home is out with Harper Collins in May 2027. His work has appeared in The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, The Lancet, BBC History and Der Spiegel, and on international television and podcasts. His books have been translated into Turkish and Japanese. He previously lectured in English and History at Cardiff University and Durham University.
