Reviews for The Science of Fairy Tales: An Inquiry Into Fairy Mythology (Dodo Press)

The average rating for The Science of Fairy Tales: An Inquiry Into Fairy Mythology (Dodo Press) based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-03-20 00:00:00 Gretchen Lieff This book was hard to read for many reasons, most notably the lack of organization as the author compared multiple stories and analyzed the links between them and the Victorian attitudes expressed toward non-European cultures. Even so, I learned a lot from this book and will consider reading it again, this time with note-taking materials at hand, in order to better integrate the great breadth of the material covered. Definitely a worthwhile read.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-06-05 00:00:00 Austin Fox Let’s pick up a Victorian-era book about the History of Faerie folk they said... It will be fun they said... OH GOD WHY WHY WHY IS THERE SO MUCH RACISM? (And to clarify, it was the wee little Faerie folk who told me to pick it up...) Honestly though, there are some interesting stories in here once you weed through all the racist bullshit, and there is a lot of that to weed through.