Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
Original title: Folklore and the fantastic in nineteenth-century British fiction
earliest edition we have, 2008 Ashgate Pub Co, 2008 hardcover 280 pages
The author argues that the tension between folk metaphysics and Enlightenment values produce the literary fantastic. Demonstrating that a negotiation with folklore was central to the canon of British literature, he explicates the complicated rhetoric associated with folklore fiction.
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