The World of the Eighteenth Century (for English Majors): Folklore
English majors, and all others, are welcome to use this guide to understand the cultural & historical context in which the literature being read was created.
Gnome Hiding Under the Bed, by Rudolf Bacher (c. 1888).
Image from Art Museum Image Gallery.
Folklore in the 18th Century
Man, Myth & Magic: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mythology, Religion, and the Unknown
Call Number: Ref. BF1411 .M25 1983
12 volumes. Maybe not the most scholarly of works, but endlessly fascinating. A wonderful, bizarre smorgasboard of all thing's "unnatural."
Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art
Call Number: Ref GR35 .F63 1997
While not focusing on a particular time period or culture, the scholarly articles in this encyclopedia discuss folk beliefs which may be read of in the literature of the 18th century.
