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Folklore in British Literature
Sarah R. Wakefield
其他書名
Naming and Narrating in Women's Fiction, 1750-1880
出版Peter Lang, 2006
主題Foreign Language Study / English as a Second LanguageLanguage Arts & Disciplines / RhetoricLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Women AuthorsLiterary Criticism / RenaissanceSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Folklore & MythologySocial Science / Women's Studies
ISBN082046340X9780820463407
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=EAqvLXJ-LTgC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Folklore provides a metaphor for insecurity in British women's writing published between 1750 and 1880. When characters feel uneasy about separations between races, classes, or sexes, they speak of mermaids and «Cinderella» to make threatening women unreal and thus harmless. Because supernatural creatures change constantly, a name or story from folklore merely reinforces fears about empire, labor, and desire. To illustrate these fascinating rhetorical strategies, this book explores works by Sarah Fielding, Ann Radcliffe, Sydney Owenson, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Anne Thackeray, and Jean Ingelow, pushing our understanding of allusions to folktales, fairy tales, and myths beyond «happily ever after.»