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Author_Elaine Ostry
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Christ Child
Christmas Books
cultural imagination studies
Dickens fairy tale sociohistorical critique
Dickens's Christmas
Dickens's Christmas Books
Dickens's Periodicals
Dickens's Social Criticism
Dickens’s Christmas
Dickens’s Christmas Books
Dickens’s Periodicals
Dickens’s Social Criticism
Edwin Drood
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Fairy Tale
fairy tale criticism
Fairy Tale Motifs
Florence Dombey
Great Expectation
Haunted Man
Household Words
Lady Dedlock
Madame Defarge
Miss Havisham
Moral Didactic
Moral Tale
narrative ideology research
Negative Social Control
Nurse's Stories
Nurse’s Stories
Outcast Child
periodical literature Victorian era
Prince Bull
social commentary in fiction
Ta Te
Victorian literature analysis
Yellow Dwarf
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415940184
- Weight: 570g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Oct 2002
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Dickens was known for his incredible imagination and fiery social protest. In Social Dreaming , Elaine Ostry examines how these two qualities are linked through Dickens's use of the fairy tale, a genre that infuses his work. To many Victorians, the fairy tale was not childish: it promoted the imagination and fancy in a materialistic, utilitarian world. It was a way of criticizing society so that everyone could understand. Like Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, Dickens used the fairy tale to promote his ideology. In this first book length study of Dickens's use of the fairy tale as a social tool, Elaine Ostry applies exciting new criticism by Jack Zipes and Maria Tatar, among others, that examines the fairy tale in a socio-historical light to Dickens's major works but also his periodicals-the most popular middle-class publications in Victorian times.
