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Au fond du jardin : une sombre histoire de fées, hobgobelins, nymphes,...

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Paperback
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Product Group
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IsTextBook
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ISBN
9780814766866
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Name
At the Bottom of the Garden : A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things
Author
Diane Purkiss
Item Length
5in
Publisher
New York University Press
Item Width
7in
Number of Pages
356 Pages

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At the Bottom of the Garden is a history of fairies from the ancient world to the present. Steeped in folklore and fantasy, it is a rich and diverse account of the part that fairies and fairy stories have played in culture and society. The pretty pastel world of gauzy-winged things who grant wishes and make dreams come true--as brought to you by Disney's fairies flitting across a woodland glade, or Tinkerbell's magic wand--is predated by a darker, denser world of gorgons, goblins, and gellos; the ancient antecedents of Shakespeare's mischievous Puck or J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan. For, as Diane Purkiss explains in this engrossing history, ancient fairies were born of fear: fear of the dark, of death, and of other great rites of passage, birth and sex. To understand the importance of these early fairies to pre-industrial peoples, we need to recover that sense of dread. This book begins with the earliest manifestations of fairies in ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean. The child-killing demons and nymphs of these cultures are the joint ancestors of the medieval fairies of northern Europe, when fairy figures provided a bridge between the secular and the sacred. Fairies abducted babies and virgins, spirited away young men who were seduced by fairy queens and remained suspended in liminal states. Tamed by Shakespeare's view of the spirit world, Victorian fairies fluttered across the theater stage and the pages of children's books to reappear a century later as detergent trade marks and alien abductors. In learning about these often strange and mysterious creatures, we learn something about ourselves--our fears and our desires.

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Publisher
New York University Press
ISBN-10
0814766862
ISBN-13
9780814766866
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2853700

Product Key Features

Author
Diane Purkiss
Publication Name
At the Bottom of the Garden : A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
356 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
5in
Item Width
7in

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Reviews
"General readers will find much of interest in Dormandy's stories and anecdotes." - The Bulletin of the History of Medicine, "...a scholarly overview of the role that fairies have played in culture from the past to the present." -Publishers Weekly, " At the Bottom of the Garden is brilliant, always on the move, and bone-chilling. There's nothing cutesy about this highly suggestive, provocative scholarship; the creatures animating this book are about as cuddly as scorpions, wee rattlers, and black-widow spiders. Purkiss has written a witty and compelling work that will fascinate readers and haunt our imaginations." - James Kincaid, University of Southern California, author of Erotic Innocence, "A model of how medical history ought to be written . . . lucid in its analysis and perspicacious in its commentary." - Peter Ackroyd, The Times of London, ". . . a scholarly overview of the role that fairies have played in culture from the past to the present." - Publishers Weekly ,, At the Bottom of the Garden is brilliant, always on the move, and bone-chilling. There's nothing cutesy about this highly suggestive, provocative scholarship; the creatures animating this book are about as cuddly as scorpions, wee rattlers, and black-widow spiders. Purkiss has written a witty and compelling work that will fascinate readers and haunt our imaginations., " At the Bottom of the Garden is brilliant, always on the move, and bone-chilling. There's nothing cutesy about this highly suggestive, provocative scholarship; the creatures animating this book are about as cuddly as scorpions, wee rattlers, and black-widow spiders. Purkiss has written a witty and compelling work that will fascinate readers and haunt our imaginations." - James Kincaid, University of Southern California, author ofErotic Innocence, ". . . a scholarly overview of the role that fairies have played in culture from the past to the present." - Publishers Weekly, . . . a scholarly overview of the role that fairies have played in culture from the past to the present., " At the Bottom of the Garden is brilliant, always on the move, and bone-chilling. There's nothing cutesy about this highly suggestive, provocative scholarship; the creatures animating this book are about as cuddly as scorpions, wee rattlers, and black-widow spiders. Purkiss has written a witty and compelling work that will fascinate readers and haunt our imaginations." -James Kincaid,University of Southern California, author of Erotic Innocence
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Demonology & Satanism, Folklore & Mythology, General
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Religion, Social Science

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