Fairy Tales Natural History and Victorian Culture

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Fairy Tales Natural History and Victorian Culture

Author	: Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
File Size	: 49,7 Mb
Publisher	: Springer
Language	: English
Release Date	: 07 May 2014
ISBN	: 9781137342409
Pages	: 217 pages

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Fairy Tales Natural History and Victorian Culture by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas Book PDF Summary

Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture examines how literary fairy tales were informed by natural historical knowledge in the Victorian period, as well as how popular science books used fairies to explain natural history at a time when 'nature' became a much debated word.

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