19th century
adaptations
british authors
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christmas crackers
cultural history
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europe
fairy tales
fantasy
feminism
feminist theory
great britain
literary tradition
rewriting
sleeping beauty
social implications
society
speaking likenesses
subversions
subversive
victorian period
western writing
women writers
Product details
- ISBN 9780226032047
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 15 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 1993
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 imaginative freedom, by turns amusing, charming, and disturbing. Besides their social and historical implications, they are extraordinary stories, full of strange delights for readers of any age. "Forbidden Journeys is not only a darkly entertaining book to read for the fantasies and anti-fantasies told, but also is a significant contribution to nineteenth-century cultural history, and especially feminist studies."--United Press International
