The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale

19世纪见证了童话作为一种流行体裁的重大发展；它还见证了印刷成本和可获得性的巨大变化，导致报纸和杂志的爆炸式增长。《维多利亚时代的新闻与童话》将是第一本关注这种动态关系的书，它认为童话和幻想的所谓“黄金时代”是由杂志文化密切塑造的。我的书将揭示，期刊在建立经典童话经典、传播民间故事学术、将这一流派政治化和培育新实验方面发挥了开创性的作用。无论是用来与达尔文主义的含义作斗争，想象一个社会主义乌托邦，还是参与新的美学运动和策略，童话故事在维多利亚时代的文化辩论中发挥了核心作用。从查尔斯·金斯利（Charles Kingsley）到凯尔·哈迪（Keir Hardie），从儿童月刊、社会主义报纸到前卫杂志，我的书揭示了这个角色的真正复杂性，揭示了童话对一系列被遗忘的读者的占有（以及被）。这个项目利用出版历史来书写维多利亚时代童话故事的新历史，并挑战了该类型现有工作中的一些关键假设。

The nineteenth century saw major developments in the fairy tale as a popular genre; it also witnessed dramatic changes in the cost and accessibility of print, resulting in an explosion of newspapers and magazines. The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale will be the first book to focus on that dynamic relationship, arguing that the supposed 'golden age' of fairy tale and fantasy was intimately shaped by that magazine culture. My book will reveal that periodicals played a seminal role in establishing a canon of classic fairy tales, in spreading folktale scholarship, and in politicising and fostering new experiments with the genre. Whether used to grapple with the implications of Darwinism, to imagine a socialist utopia, or to engage with new aesthetic movements and strategies, the fairy tale played a central role in Victorian cultural debates. From Charles Kingsley to Keir Hardie, children's monthlies and socialist newspapers to avant-garde magazines, my book reveals the true complexity of that role, uncovering the fairy tale's appropriation for (and by) a range of forgotten readerships. This project uses publishing history to write a new history of the Victorian fairy tale, and challenges some key assumptions made in existing work on the genre.