Myths of Innocence and Imagination: The Case of the Fairy Tale

During the nineteenth century both fairy tales and childhood came to represent an elevated imaginary state. Placing the child in an Edenic state of innocence, the Romantics and later the Victorians created a powerful, but also problematic myth of childhood. In heralding fairy tales as imaginative an...

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Main Author: Sky, Jeanette (Author)
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Published: Oxford University Press 2002
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2002, Volume: 16, Issue: 4, Pages: 363-376
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