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Tag Archives: illustration
Archive of 6,000 Historical Children’s Books
The University of Florida have digitised the 6,000 children’s books of their Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature and made them available on line for free. This is a marvellous resource and I have added it to the Related Links list … Continue reading
Posted in Resources
Tagged Children's literature, Eighteenth century, Genre, illustration, Nineteenth century, YA Fiction
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Struwwelpeter — Original Illustrations
An interesting essay by Sarah Lascow on the cautionary tales of Heinrich Hoffman, including, most notably, ‘Struwwelpeter’: ‘The 19th-Century Book of Horrors That Scared German Kids Into Behaving‘. The tales influenced WH Auden and inspired Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands. Some … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Articles
Tagged cautionary tales, Children's literature, illustration, Struwwelpeter, Tim Burton
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Images of Witches
Some excellent articles on witches today. First, Chloe Buckley, in ‘Hag, temptress or feminist icon? The witch in popular culture‘, looks at images of witches in popular culture, both positive and disparaging. She notes the contemporary feminist rehabilitation of the … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts
Tagged early modern, Fashion, Feminism, Folk Horror, illustration, misogyny, popular culture, witchcraft, witches, women, woodcuts
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Edward Gorey
A very interesting essay by Gabrielle Bellot on Edward Gorey, artist and narrator of dark Gothic humour.
The Obscure Cities
These illustrations from François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters’s series of graphic novels, Les Cités Obscures depict a marvellous steampunk-ish parallel world that I hope you find delightful. Thanks to the Messy Nessy Cabinet of Chic Curiosities website, which is full of treats … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, citiescapes, Fantasy, graphic novels, illustration, steampunk
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Red Riding Hood and Illustrations
Pook Press are a small independent publisher who do some lovely editions of fairy tales and classic children’s literature. Every fortnight, they post a different fairy tale on their blog; this is Perrault’s very familiar version of ‘Red Riding Hood‘, … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Perrault, fairy tale, illustration, Red Riding Hood, Wolves
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Beauty and the Beast: more thoughts
Further to Sam’s post below, I’m writing a paper on YA adaptations of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ for the Damsels in Redress: Women in Contemporary Fairy-Tale Reimaginings at Queen’s University, Belfast (7-8 April), so the tale is very much on … Continue reading
Fairy Tale Hybridity: What Kind of Animal is Beast in ‘Beauty and the Beast’?
‘Beauty and the Beast’ belongs to the Animal Groom cycle of fairy tales alongside ‘The Frog King’ and ‘Cupid and Psyche’. I have always been intrigued by what kind of animal Beast is in this tale. In his twenty first-century … Continue reading
Nikolei Polevoi, Russian Fairy Tales
Here’s a beautiful digitisation of Nikolei Polevoi’s Russian Fairy Tales in a 19o5 translation by R. Nisbet Bain, with sumptuous illustrations by Noel L. Nisbet.
CfP: Arthur Rackham in Sussex on his 150th birthday, University of Chichester, 16 September 2017
Yet another exciting-looking conference! Most people who love the fairy tale and fantastic literature will be aware of Arthur Rackham’s dreamlike illustrations. The Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tale and Fantasy are holding a one-day symposium on his work–CfP here. … Continue reading