Victorian Fairy Tales Damien Poulain “Bold and irreverent: like a

“Bold and irreverent: like a DYMO machine gone nuts on a Mondrian print

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challenging myths about queerness – particularly transness – as a modern phenomenon

and in 2018 he became the first comic artist to receive the Edward MacDowell Medal

and his writings reveal him as one of the most beguiling of absurdists

Victorian Fairy Tales Damien Poulain “Bold and irreverent: like aVictorian Fairy Tales, edited by Michael Newton (Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection) 444 pages ISBN 9780198825791 *** 'The Queen and the bat had been talking a good deal that afternoon' The Victorian fascination with fairyland vivified the literature of the period, and led to some of the most imaginative fairy tales ever written. They offer the shortest path to the age's dreams, desires, and wishes. Authors central to the nineteenth century