
The Victorian Supernatural
9780521114646 Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Heftet
25.06.2009
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Nicola Bown's study reminds us that for the Victorians the fairy symbolized disenchantment with the irresistible forces of progress and modernity. As these forces stripped their world of its wonder, Victorians consoled themselves by dreaming of a place suffused with the enchantment that was disappearing from their own lives.