Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

Dr Jason Marc Harris is an assistant professor in the Dept. of Humanities and Communications at the Florida Institute of Technology. He is the coauthor (with Birke Duncan) of a folklore study, The Troll Tale and Other Scary Stories (2001). Besides writing various articles about the interaction between folklore and literature, he recently provided an introduction to Robert Louis Stevenson's The Master of Ballantrae for the Barnes and Noble Library of Essential Reading Series (2006).

Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 An Introduction to Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Literature; Chapter 2 Victorian Literary Fairy Tales: Their Folklore and Function; Chapter 3 Victorian Fairy-Tale Fantasies: MacDonald’s Fairyland and Barrie’s Neverland; Chapter 4 MacDonald’s; Lilith; and; Phantastes; : In Pursuit of the Soul in Fairyland; Chapter 5 James Hogg’s Use of Legend: Folk Metaphysics and Narrative Authority; Chapter 6 Ghosts, “Grand Ladies,” “The Gentry,” and “Good Neighbors”: Folkloric Representations of the Spirit World’s Intersection with Class and Racial Tensions in Le Fanu; Chapter 7 Robert Louis Stevenson: Folklore and Imperialism; Chapter 8 William Carleton and William Sharp: The Celtic Renaissance and Fantastic Folklore; Chapter 9 Conclusion: Second Sight;