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FOLKLORE IN BRITISH LITERATURE - SARAH R WAKEFI...

Folklore provides a metaphor for insecurity in British women's writing published between 1750
and 1880. When characters feel uneasy about separations between races  classes  or sexes  they
speak of mermaids and Cinderella to make threatening women unreal and thus harmless. Because
supernatural creatures change constantly  a name or story from folklore merely reinforces fears
about empire  labor  and desire. To illustrate these fascinating rhetorical strategies  this
book explores works by Sarah Fielding  Ann Radcliffe  Sydney Owenson  Charlotte Brontë  George
Eliot  Anne Thackeray  and Jean Ingelow  pushing our understanding of allusions to folktales 
fairy tales  and myths beyond happily ever after.

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