This book offers a new history of the fairy tale, revealing the creative role of periodical publication in shaping this popular genre. Sumpter explores the fairy tale's reinvention for (and by) diverse readerships in unexpected contexts, including debates over evolution, colonialism, socialism, gender and sexuality and decadence.

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CAROLINE SUMPTER Lecturer in Victorian Literature at Queen's University, Belfast, UK. She has written on nineteenth-century literature, science and culture in journals including Victorian Studies, Literature and History, Media History, Cultural and Social History and Nineteenth-Century Contexts.

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Serializing Scheherazade: An Alternative History of the Fairy Tale Myths of Origin: Folktale Scholarship and Fictional Invention in Magazines for Children Science and Superstition, Realism and Romance: Fairy Tale and Fantasy in the Adult Shilling Monthly 'I wonder were the fairies Socialists?': The Politics of the Fairy Tale in the 1890s Labour Press 'All art is once surface and symbol': Fairy Tales and the Fin-de-Siècle Little Magazines Conclusion: Myth in the Marketplace Notes Bibliography Index