Fairy Tales, Natural History and Victorian Culture | 
pickIn this scholarly work, University of Toulouse English professor Laurence Talairach-Vielmas explores how advances in and the popularization of science in the Victorian era impacted the often subversive literary fairy tales of the time period and how works of natural history and popular science used fairies and integrated the language of fairy tales to evoke wonder and disseminate scientific information, all while allowing for the spiritual.
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