At the bottom of the garden : a dark history of fairies, hobgoblins, and other troublesome things
by
Purkiss, Diane, 1961-
Title
:
At the bottom of the garden : a dark history of fairies, hobgoblins, and other troublesome things
Author
:
Purkiss, Diane, 1961-
ISBN
:
9780814766866
Personal Author
:
Purkiss, Diane, 1961-
Edition
:
1st U.S.A. pbk. ed.
Publication Information
:
New York : New York University Press, 2003, c2000.
Physical Description
:
xii, 356 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Contents
:
Ancient worlds -- Medieval dreams -- Birth and death : fairies in Scottish witch-trials -- Desire of gold and the good neighbours : the uses of fairies -- The fairy goes literary : Puck and others -- Into the Enlightenment -- Victorian fairies -- Tinker Bell's magic and the fairies' call to war -- Photographing fairies, and a Celtic revival -- Fairy bubbles and alien abductions.
Subject Term
:
Fairies -- History.
Fairies in literature.
Fairies in art.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy | Status |
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| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168025422011 | 398.09 P985A 2000 | 1 | On-Shelf Student |