David Sandner

The Fantastic Sublime

Romanticism and Transcendence in Nineteenth-Century Children's Fantasy Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Many Victorian and Edwardian fantasy stories began as extemporaneous oral tales told for the delight of children and, like Alice in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows, were written down by chance. These fanciful stories, told with child-like spontaneity, are analyzed here to argue their role in the revolution not only of children's literature, but of the general conception of childhood. In contrast to the traditional moral tales of the 18th century that were written with the express purpose of instructing children how to become adults, this literature that Sandner identifies as the fantastic sublime reveled in the imagination and the enjoyment of reading. By looking at the structure of the Romantic sublime and inventing and exploring the structure of the fantastic sublime, this work offers a completely new way to examine 19th-century children's fantasy literature, and perhaps, fantastic literature in general. The study begins with a look at works by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, focusing on the 18th-century view of childhood and fantasy. This book expands on the notion that English Romanticism played a significant role in preparing adults to accept fantasy literature for children. Connections are made to the works of Kenneth Grahame, George MacDonald, and Christina Rossetti.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 355g
• ISBN-13: 9780313300844
• ISBN-10: 0313300844
• Artikelnr.: 22467174

Autorenporträt

David M. Sandner

Inhaltsangabe

Romanticism, Childhood, Fairy Tales and the World of the Spirit Puer
Aeternus, the Divine Child "Old" Fairy Tales and the "New" Romantic Child
The Moral Tale and the Fairy Tale The Consubstantial World of Faery The
Wind from Beyond the World The "Correspondent Breeze" From the Romantic to
the Fantastic Sublime The Fantastic Sublime in Kenneth Grahame's The Wind
in the Willows The Fantastic Sublime in George MacDonald's At the Back of
the North Wind Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and the Feminine
Rereading of the Fantastic Sublime The Price of Fairy Fruit in Goblin
Market The Domesticated Sublime in Frankenstein The Imagination Unbound in
Goblin Market Difference and Common Ground Bibliography Index