Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction(English, Hardcover, Harris Jason Marc)

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Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction(English, Hardcover, Harris Jason Marc) is written by Harris Jason Marc and published by Taylor & Francis Ltd. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0754657663 (ISBN 10) and 9780754657668 (ISBN 13).

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.