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Clark Hillard, Molly.

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"Obscure dread and intense desire": Folklore, literature, and the Victorian self.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"Obscure dread and intense desire": Folklore, literature, and the Victorian self./
Author:	Clark Hillard, Molly.
Description:	366 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: A, page: 3396.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-09A.
Subject:	Literature, English. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3148457
ISBN:	0496074717

"Obscure dread and intense desire": Folklore, literature, and the Victorian self.
Clark Hillard, Molly.

"Obscure dread and intense desire": Folklore, literature, and the Victorian self. - 366 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-09, Section: A, page: 3396.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2004.

This dissertation examines folk tales and legends in Victorian literary and visual art, in order to recover folklore's importance as a tool for exploring and expressing Victorian cultural identity. It is my contention that folk tales and legends provided powerful narratives and figures that Victorians could manipulate and remodel to stand for a variety of cultural anxieties---economic, sexual, and artistic. The works in the study ahead---poetry by Keats, Tennyson, and Christina Rossetti, a novel by Dickens, the artwork of Burne-Jones, the popular press as represented by Punch, illustrated chapbooks, and popular theater scripts---exhibit the diverse ways in which folklore appeared in English culture. The very multiplicity of genre reflects the capaciousness of folklore to do England in different voices---to speak, that is, in the voice of "high" and "low" art, conservative and liberal doctrine, sentimental and parodic form. Because the project blends a study of oral, literary, and visual narratives, it joins the movement in recent years to take a broad view of text, and to privilege the relationship between text and context. More specifically, I ally myself with scholars that read a nation's sense of itself, its past and present both, as imagined and imaginative constructs, and as such dependent upon powerful master narratives and figurative icons for sustenance. The dissertation contributes to such critiques of identity by adding folklore as a rich and nuanced index of nationhood. Finally, by exploring the extent to which folk narrative was infused through Victorian literature and culture, and underscoring the complexity of the Victorian response to folklore, this project advances our understanding of the fanciful nature of Victorian representations of economy, domesticity, sexuality, artistry, and class. It is, paradoxically, in moments of starkest realism that folklore lies closest to Victorian literature. Texts that depict England's grimmest, most fraught social issues frequently introduce the fantastic motifs of tale and legend. The dark, brutal, bawdy themes of narrative lore become, not a retreat from reality, but a coded means of expressing it.

ISBN: 0496074717Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

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