Download PDF by Carole G. Silver: Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian

By Carole G. Silver

Teeming with creatures, either actual and imagined, this encyclopedic examine in cultural heritage illuminates the hidden internet of connections among the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian tradition at huge. Carole Silver the following attracts on resources starting from the anthropological, folkloric, and occult to the felony, ancient, and clinical. She is the 1st to anatomize an international peopled by way of unusual beings who've infiltrated either the literary and visible masterpieces and the minor works of the writers and painters of that era.

Examining the interval of 1798 to 1923, Strange and mystery Peoples focuses not just on such well known literary figures as Charles Dickens and William Butler Yeats, yet on writers as assorted as Thomas Carlyle, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Charlotte Mew; on artists as diversified as mad Richard Dadd, Aubrey Beardsley, and Sir Joseph Noel Paton; and on artifacts starting from fossil skulls to images and vases. Silver demonstrates how attractive and enormous creatures--fairies and swan maidens, goblins and dwarfs, cretins and changelings, elementals and pygmies--simultaneously peopled the Victorian mind's eye and inhabited nineteenth-century technology and trust. Her booklet finds the unbelievable complexity and fertility of the Victorian recognition: its modernity and antiquity, its wish to naturalize the supernatural, its pervasive eroticism fused with sexual anxiousness, and its force for racial and imperial dominion.

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