{"product_id":"strange-and-secret-peoples-fairies-and-victorian-consciousness-9780195144116","title":"Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness","description":"\u003cp\u003eTeeming with creatures  both real and imagined  this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources ranging from the anthropological  folkloric  and occult to the legal  historical  and medical. She is the first to anatomize a world peopled by strange beings who have infiltrated both the literary and visual masterpieces and the minor works of the writers and painters of that era.  Examining the period of 1798 to 1923  Strange and Secret Peoples focuses not only on such popular literary figures as Charles Dickens and William Butler Yeats  but on writers as diverse as Thomas Carlyle  Arthur Conan Doyle  and Charlotte Mew; on artists as varied as mad Richard Dadd  Aubrey Beardsley  and Sir Joseph Noel Paton; and on artifacts ranging from fossil skulls to photographs and vases. Silver demonstrates how beautiful and monstrous creatures--fairies and swan maidens  goblins and dwarfs  cretins and changelings  elementals and pygmies--simultaneously peopled the Victorian imagination and inhabited nineteenth-century science and belief. Her book reveals the astonishing complexity and fertility of the Victorian consciousness: its modernity and antiquity  its desire to naturalize the supernatural  its pervasive eroticism fused with sexual anxiety  and its drive for racial and imperial dominion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666326085685,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195144112","price":109.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195144116.jpg?v=1782428315","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/strange-and-secret-peoples-fairies-and-victorian-consciousness-9780195144116","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}