Download or read book Victorian Fairy Tales written by Jack Zipes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Download or read book Victorian Tales of Elves and Fairies written by Richard S. Bailey and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-12 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children's Story theatre versions of Victorian era fairy tales in which the involvement of elves and fairies are central to the story. The plays include "The Nine Mountains," "The Elves of the Fairy Forest," "Princess Rosetta," and Mme. De Chatelain's original story "Up! Horsie!," Story Theatre presents a unique opportunity for the actors, director, and designers. The actors not only interpret and present their character's dialogue; but also the character's inner monologues detailing usually unspoken thoughts and emotions, the character's movement, as well as descriptions of scene and costume. The actors are not simply portraying their characters but telling their characters' stories. This requires multiple variations of voice and visage. The plays are structured to accommodate the most elaborate to the simplest of production styles and give broad creative latitude to directors and designers to create a magical experience for audiences of all ages. The plays are adapted from the fairy tale translations of Mme. de Chatelain and features the eloquent use of language that made her renditions of Grimm and Andersen hugely popular. This is the second in a series of children's fairy tales adapted for the stage.

Download or read book Strange and Secret Peoples written by Carole G. Silver and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teeming 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.

Download or read book Victorian Fairy Tales written by Michael Stuart Newton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology brings together 14 of the best Victorian fairy tales, by major period writers as well as specialists in the genre, to show the vibrancy of the form and its ability to reflect our deepest concerns. From whimsy to satire, the stories reveal the preoccupations of the age and celebrate the value of the imagination.

Download or read book BOOK OF ELVES AND FAIRIES written by FRANCES JENKINS. OLCOTT and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rackham s Fairies Elves and Goblins written by Jeff A. Menges and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great Rackham is at his most radiant in this beguiling collection of more than 80 otherworldly illustrations from magazines, periodicals, and novels such as Milton's Comus and Hawthorne's Wonder Book.

Download or read book Tales of Fairies and Elves written by Egmont Books, Limited and published by . This book was released on 1987-12 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Faeries Elves and Goblins written by Rosalind Kerven and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique collection of traditional stories about faeries, elves and goblins. Faeries, elves, goblins, leprechauns, brownies, spriggans and many other supernatural beings leap vividly off the page in this collection of haunting stories. Included are 25 stories drawing on folklore from the rich narrative heritage of Britain and Ireland. Marvel over ancient spells to summon faeries to your house, tremble at the shapeshifting powers of dangerous faery queens, lose yourself amongst the illusions of Faeryland and learn how to protect family members from the terrors of faery abduction. Interspersed with facts on faery folklore, these tales cover faery morals, elvish misdemeanours, the spells cast by goblins and the sightings of the creatures, as well as their dealings with mortals. With charming illustrations from favourite illustrators throughout, including Arthur Rackham, this book reminds us of the enduring appeal of folklore and mystery for all generations.

Download or read book The Giant Golden Book of Elves and Fairies written by Jane Werner and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2008-09-09 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS WHIMSICAL AND charming collection of stories and poems was first published in 1951. Now a new generation of fairy fans can search for lost merbabies, bargain with pixies, and frolic under the moon with Jane Werner’s fantastic selection of “wee folk” tales, masterfully illustrated by Garth Williams.

Download or read book Barefoot Book of Faeries written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of folktales, poems, and snippets of faerie lore from Great Britain and Ireland that were influenced by writers and artists from the Victorian era.

Download or read book Fairies in Victorian Art written by Christopher Wood and published by Antique Collectors Club Dist. This book was released on 2008 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised edition of a very popular title, written by one of England's leading experts on Victorian art.

Download or read book Fairies and Elves written by Gresham Publishing Company Limited, The and published by Geddes & Grosset, Limited. This book was released on 1994 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Illustrated Stories of Elves Pixies and Goblins written by Sam Baer and published by . This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magical collection of fairy creatures from all over the world. Magic and mischief abound in this captivating collection. Meet the cheeky kappa from Japan, a clever duende from the Philippines and the loyal foletto of Florence, all fairy creatures who can help or hinder humans as they please.

Download or read book The Book of Elves and Fairies written by Frances Jenkins Olcott and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Elves and Fairies (published in 1918) by Frances Jenkins OlcottAccounts of elfin mounds and fairy hills abound here. So do fables of little men and treasures of gold, fairy servants, and spirits of water, forest, and meadow. Nearly 50 charming fairy tales and fantasies gathered from Scotland, Ireland, Sweden, China, and other faraway places are retold here. For ages 10 and up.Fairies! Fairies everywhere! Hear them come! See them come in the pale moonlight to this lovely meadow! They rush through the air; they throng from the wood; they spring up from the ground; they peep from the flowers and leaves. They are all hastening to the Fairies' Story Hour. The Midsummer moon is shining, shining; while the Midsummer breeze is swaying, swaying the harebells, lilies, and grasses.Laughter! whisper! Laughter! whisper! See, through the air comes gliding a whole host of radiant little Fairies. They poise lightly on their silvery wings, and float down to the harebells and lilies. They flicker over the meadow like gay butterflies. Laughter! whisper!Hum! whirr! Hum! whirr! What is that noise in the tree-tops? From among the dark leaves fly hundreds and hundreds of broad-backed beetles, bumping and thumping each other. They are followed by a silent cloud of bats, that wheel and whirl, and flap their leathery wings. And to the back of every beetle and every bat clings a tiny roguish Elf peeping down at the meadow below.Rap! tack! tack! Rap! tack! tack! From behind each tree-trunk steps a little Leprechaun as big as your thumb. They are the Fairy Shoemakers. Their long beards and red caps wag in the moonlight; and the little men smile and chuckle to themselves, for well they know where the pots of Fairy Gold are hidden. Near them, peering from behind stones and bushes, are the Curmudgeons, rolling their mischievous eyes.AuthorFrances Jenkins Olcott (1872-1963) was the first head librarian of the children's department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in 1898. She also wrote many children's books and books for those in the profession of providing library service to children and youth. In 1911 Olcott left both Pittsburgh and her position of librarian and moved back to New York to write books for children, and books on how to be an effective children's librarian. She wrote and edited more than 24 volumes, which sold in her lifetime for more than a half million dollars. She was asked to write the section "Library Works with Children" for the American Library Association 1914 Manual of Library Economy. Olcott was an assistant librarian of the Brooklyn Public Library from 1897-1898. She them became the first librarian to develop and head the Children's Department at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and to organize a formal training program known as The Training School for Children's Librarians. Her children's department was a laboratory where she and her staff tested methods, evolved standards, and worked out problems regarding reading engagement, content selection, and material organization. Her team's results were published and shared with other libraries and schools; her educationally minded staff with two expert bibliographers helped eventually create what became her Carnegie-supported Training School for Children's Librarians. Olcott started outreach programs to bring books into homes, schools, detention centers, and beyond. Her efforts helped a large immigrant population at the time learn how to adapt to a new country. She promoted the idea of having home libraries for children, and she and her colleagues would set up a reading hour where groups of children would meet in a home in the community to be read to by the librarians. Olcott was born in 1872 in Paris, France near the Garden of the Batignolles.

Download or read book The book of elves and fairies written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth Century British Fiction written by Jason Marc Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jason Marc Harris's ambitious book argues that the tensions 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 folkloric fiction. His analysis includes a wide range of writers, including James Barrie, William Carleton, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Sheridan Le Fanu, Neil Gunn, George MacDonald, William Sharp, Robert Louis Stevenson, and James Hogg. These authors, Harris suggests, used folklore to articulate profound cultural ambivalence towards issues of class, domesticity, education, gender, imperialism, nationalism, race, politics, religion, and metaphysics. Harris's analysis of the function of folk metaphysics in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century narratives reveals the ideological agendas of the appropriation of folklore and the artistic potential of superstition in both folkloric and literary contexts of the supernatural.

Download or read book The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories written by Mary de Morgan and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories by Mary de Morgan