Forbidden Journeys

Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers

Nina Auerbach author Nina Auerbach editor U C Knoepflmacher editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University of Chicago Press

Published:1st Aug '93

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Forbidden Journeys cover

As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's adaptations of "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" to Christina Rossetti's unsettling antifantasies in Speaking Likenesses, these are breathtaking acts of imaginative freedom, by turns amusing, charming, and disturbing. Besides their social and historical implications, they are extraordinary stories, full of strange delights for readers of any age. "Forbidden Journeys is not only a darkly entertaining book to read for the fantasies and anti-fantasies told, but also is a significant contribution to nineteenth-century cultural history, and especially feminist studies."--United Press International

ISBN: 9780226032047

Dimensions: 23mm x 15mm x 2mm

Weight: 567g

380 pages