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During the nineteenth century, folklorists, antiquarians and literary scholars all produced studies of fairies and fairy tales that reflected their different viewpoints. The work contained here provides a rich source of illuminating material about fairy tales, ranging from the nature of literary theory, the development of folklore as a scholarly study, and the growth of fantastic literature, to the social effects of philosophical speculation, changing attitudes to childhood education, and a reevaluation of the concept of childhood itself.