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Article: Fairies, Fractious Women, and the Old Faith: Fairy Lore in Early Modern British Drama and Culture.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 2007
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Regina Buccola. Fairies, Fractious Women, and the Old Faith: Fairy Lore in Early Modern British Drama and Culture.
Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 2006. 294 pp. $55. ISBN: 1-57591-103-5.
Regina Buccola's new book is to be welcomed for providing a reasoned, scholarly demonstration both of the centrality of fairy mythology within the early modern popular imagination and of its validity as a serious object of academic study. Fairy mythology's identification with voices, forms, and groups considered marginal or trivial has led until recently to the dismissal of fairy narratives from critical consideration in literary studies. Buccola seeks to ...