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Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction (Hardcover, New Ed)
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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.
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