Bücher von Jarlath Killeen

Examines changing ideas about childhood and Ireland in Irish Anglican writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in a wide variety of genres, including novels, sermons, political pamphlets, letters, educational treatises, histories, catechisms and children's bibles.

Presents a study of Wilde's fairy tales for children, arguing that Wilde's stories are neither uniformly conservative nor subversive, but a blend of both. This book contends that while they should be read in relation to a literary tradition of fairy tales that emerged in nineteenth century Europe; Irish issues heavily influenced the work.