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Folklore in British literature; naming and narrating in women's fiction, 1750-1880.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Folklore in British literature; naming and narrating in women's fiction, 1750-1880.

Wakefield, Sarah R.

Peter Lang Publishing Inc

2006

176 pages

$64.95

Hardcover

Studies on themes and motifs in literature; v.80

PR868

Wakefield (English, A&M U.-Prairie View, Texas) surveys selected works from fictional genres, focusing particularly on seven, among them Sarah Fielding, Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot. In them she finds multiple uses of the supernatural and responses to uneasiness around individuals Other to ...

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