Description: Contents: Preface; An introduction to folklore and the fantastic in 19th-century British literature; Victorian literary fairy tales: their folklore and function; Victorian fairy-tale fantasies: MacDonald's Fairyland and Barrie's Neverland; MacDonald's Lilith and Phantastes: in pursuit of the soul of fairyland; James Hogg's use of legend: folk metaphysics and narrative authority; 'Grand ladies', 'the gentry', and 'good neighbors': folkloric representations of class and racial tensions in Le Fanu; Robert Louis Stevenson: folklore and imperialism; William Carleton and William Sharp: the Celtic renaissance and fantastic folklore; Conclusion: 2nd night; Bibliography; Index.

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