Fairy Tale and Folklore in the Nineteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12880801 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caroline Sumpter (0000-0002-8687-3560, Queen's University Belfast, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 785-798 |
| Publication date | 2009-04-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2009.00630.x |
| OpenAlex | W2018412585 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
Fairies and fairy tales continue to intrigue both academic and popular audiences. This article, while exploring the diverse approaches of recent scholars in this field, also raises disciplinary questions. Should the study of folklore and of the literary fairy tale be seen as separate research areas, one the preserve of the cultural historian and folklorist, the other the remit of the literary scholar? Can we even make a clear distinction in the nineteenth century between authored, literary fairy tales and orally collected supernatural folktales? If it is reductive to assume that the fairy tale can always be classified (and potentially dismissed) as children's literature, how might recent trends in Victorian studies suggest new ways of seeing and teaching the genre? Discussing the fairy tale in the context of debates over orality and authenticity, literature and science, all of these questions will be examined below
Art · Context (archaeology · Discipline · Folklore · Folkloristics · Literacy · Literary criticism · Literature · Orality · Social science · Sociology · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Themes in Literature Analysis
The Arabian Nights
Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe
The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France
The Invention of Telepathy 1870-1901
The Place of Enchantment
Supernatural Legends in Nineteenth-Century Irish Writing
Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales
Out of the Woods
Where Next in Victorian Literary Studies? – Revising the Canon, Extending Cultural Boundaries, and the Challenge of Interdisciplinarity
Grimms' bad girls and bold boys
Of Beasts and Boys
Why Fairy Tales Stick
Captain Burton's Oriental Muck Heap”
Primitivism, Science, and the Irish Revival
Defining the Species
Peasant Customs and Savage Myths
The Uses of Disciplinary History
From the Beast to the Blonde
One Fairy Story Too Many
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |