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Journal articles on the topic "Abduction – Fiction"
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Błaszkiewicz, Bartłomiej. "On the Idea of the Secondary World in Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi." Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, no. 30/1 (September 1, 2021): 111–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.7311/0860-5734.30.1.08.
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The paper seeks to explore the concept of the secondary world as developed in Susanna Clarke’s 2020 fantasy novel Piranesi. The analysis is conducted in the context of the evolution of the literary motif of fairy abduction between the classic medieval texts and its current incarnations in modern speculative fiction. The argument relates the unique secondary world model found in Clarke’s novel to the extensive intertextual relationship Piranesi has with the tradition of portal fantasy narratives, and discusses it in the context of the progressive cognitive internalisation of the perception of the fantastic which has taken place between the traditional medieval paradigm and contemporary fantasy fiction.
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Wolffe, John. "The Jesuit as Villain in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction." Studies in Church History 48 (2012): 308–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400001406.
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In The Jesuit, an early work by the popular novelist John Frederick Smith, three young English officers pass through Lisbon during the Peninsular War. While exploring a church they meet a mysterious Jesuit, who engages them in conversation about hostile British attitudes to his order. He tells them that ‘You paint a devil of your own creation, give it horns and attributes, then shudder at the phantom you have raised’. However, in the context of the novel, the threat from Jesuits is all too real. The villain of the story, the orders General in Spain, has no scruples about engaging in a sustained career of deception, manipulation, theft, abduction, rape and murder behind a façade of outward respectability and high religious office. He also exercises considerable power behind the vacant Spanish throne and even attempts unsuccessfully to make the future Duke of Wellington the unwitting agent of his nefarious purposes. The ‘devil’ Smith himself created was indeed a formidable one.
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Gautam, Bimal. "Subversive Humanism in Manto’s Partition Fiction." Interdisciplinary Journal of Innovation in Nepalese Academia 1, no. 1 (2022): 79–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/idjina.v1i1.51970.
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Ironizing the violence to convey the political message about minority, Saadat Hasan Monto uses humanistic radical irony as a vehicle for political commentary by demystifying the politics of the representation of violence in official texts of both modern India and Pakistan. Partition affected every sector of human affairs badly. So, partition stories depict the irreplaceable loss displacement, dispossession, abduction, rape, painful death and other forms of violence that common people suffered from all three communities: Hindu, Sikh and Muslim. Manto counts the prime position who dealt with reality of the existing violence by showing it at various levels as familial, social, economic, political, religious others. In that course Manto also subverts the limited and biased notion of partition, which took partition of India as only the partition of territory and people. In the light of Hutcheon’s notion of ‘radical use of irony’, I argue that Manto’s use of irony in “Cold Meat” and “Open it” shows the utter cruelty of the people in power and authority at the time of partition violence and humanity shown by the marginalized section of society. His writing encapsulates his empathy for the victims and his belief in the essential goodness of humanity. The humanity that shines through in his writings about the down-trodden people living in the fringes of society, and the victims of partition violence of 1947 are an integral part of his stories.
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Escalera, Gibran. "“Real Lives” de la Frontera in Ana Castillo’s The Guardians." Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 45, no. 2 (2020): 53–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/azt.2020.45.2.53.
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This essay investigates literary representations of border violence in Ana Castillo’s The Guardians (2007) in order to revise the north-south paradigms central to contemporary understanding of the US-México border. Explanatory models that reduce the border to a geopolitical barrier fail to recognize its nonterritorial and historical dimensions. To make this argument, the essay examines the representational strategies of multiple realisms and shows how Castillo’s adaptation of these techniques provides a counternarrative to popular discourses of the border. Less a fixed set of concrete traits, realism designates a range of literary practices such as multimodal narration and accumulated detail as a way of mediating lived experience for those on the social and cultural margins. While it foregrounds questions of literary form, the essay situates its analysis in the context of twenty-first-century border fiction and its emphasis on border violence. A more thorough account of how the US-México border’s discursive representation legitimizes border asymmetries such as gender-based violence, drug manufacture, and abduction requires a new critical vocabulary that looks beyond the territorial.
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Nijhawan, Shobna. "Gendered lives in vernacular fiction: Redefining family in Hindi short stories of the early 1940s." Indian Economic & Social History Review 56, no. 1 (2019): 33–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019464618817368.
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This article is embedded in discourses surrounding the new mobility of people as well as scientific, technological and socio-cultural changes in a late-colonial setting. It investigates how a number of prominent and less-known male authors from the centre and margins of the twentieth-century Hindi literary canon, including Rishabhcharan Jain, Shriyut ‘Arun’ and Durgadas Bhaskar, depict unconventional family constellations and human relationships that challenge normative conceptions of family, fatherhood, conjugality and blood bonds as well as gender roles and responsibilities. The short stories under investigation suggest that human relationships require constant negotiation and investigation of the meaning of kinship, caste, class and the human. In the process, we encounter adulterous husbands, strong wives and nurturing fathers’ life struggles and tribulations. These short stories centre on husband–wife, man–mistress, wife–mistress and father–son relationships. Their male protagonists are authoritative towards their wives, caring towards their mistresses and nurturing towards children. At times, their self-sacrifice goes as far as to complete self-annihilation for the sake of the offspring, and, at other times, they lead double lives. Mothers are absent in these short stories. Instead, male protagonists claim parenthood and are ready to go as far as to abduct infants in order to perform fatherhood. I argue that parenting constellations and conjugality became negotiable for a number of factors that are addressed in my selection of Hindi short stories: (a) parenthood was not contingent upon biology (as stories on adoption and abduction suggest), (b) contraception was readily available to women and men (as promoted in periodicals of the time) and in the process also changing attitudes towards sexuality and conjugality, (c) abortion emerged as a medical option to undo a pregnancy emerging from an illicit love affair and (d) the new mobility enabled people to get around easily and frequently and even lead double lives. In addressing these factors, fiction published and circulated in periodicals offered novel imaginative and innovative spaces for the negotiation of family models once projected as normative in social reformist and nationalist discourses.
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Nikolina, Natalia N. "Personification in the Speech of a Child Narrator (a Case Study of Novels ‘Room’ by E. Donoghue and ‘All the Lost Things’ by M. Sacks)." Вестник Пермского университета. Российская и зарубежная филология 13, no. 4 (2021): 89–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2073-6681-2021-4-89-99.
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The article examines personification in the speech of a child narrator. Along with other grammatical and lexical features of a child’s speech, the use of personification by children is distinguished. Personification in a child’s speech, as well as in human speech, can be explained by metaphorical nature of human thinking as well as anthropocentrism of human thinking and speech. Personification can be a characteristic of the speech of a child narrator in fiction intended for adult readership. It is worth noticing that the use of a child narrator as a device is not new in literature. In the course of research, we conducted an analysis of two modern novels written in English: Room by Emma Donoghue (2010) and All the Lost Things by Michelle Sacks (2019). The two novels tell the reader about a traumatic experience that happened to the children or their significant others. The novels discuss the topics of abuse (physical and psychological), abduction, isolation, lying and memory. The narrators in the chosen novels are children of preschool and primary school age (5 and 7 years old). The analysis of the narrators’ speech allowed us to find numerous examples of personification, expressed by different parts of speech. All the found examples can be divided into groups according to the object of personification: household items and objects of the world, parts of the human body, animals, abstract notions, plants, and inorganic nature. The analysis showed that personification as a characteristic of speech can fulfill several functions: make the narrator more plausible, express the narrator’s emotions, communicate the reader the information that is crucial for the understanding of the plot.
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García-Carpintero, Manuel. "Predelli on Fictional Discourse." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 80, no. 1 (2021): 83–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpab062.
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Abstract John Searle argues that (literary) fictions are constituted by mere pretense—by the simulation of representational activities like assertions, without any further representational aim. They are not the result of sui generis, dedicated speech acts of a specific kind, on a par with assertion. The view had earlier many defenders, and still has some. Stefano Predelli enlists considerations derived from Searle in support of his radical fictionalism. This is the view that a sentence of fictional discourse including a prima facie empty fictional name like “Emma Woodhouse” in fact “is not a sentence, and it encodes no proposition whatsoever.” His argument is broadly abductive; he claims that this view affords compelling explanations of features of fictions he finds well-established, among them that fictions without explicit narrators nonetheless have covert ones. Here I take up his arguments, in defense of the dedicated speech act view. I thus address pressing issues about the status of fictional names and the nature and ubiquity of narrators in fictions.
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Magnani, L. "Is abduction ignorance-preserving? Conventions, models and fictions in science." Logic Journal of IGPL 21, no. 6 (2013): 882–914. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jigpal/jzt012.
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Foyster, Elizabeth. "The “New World of Children” Reconsidered: Child Abduction in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century England." Journal of British Studies 52, no. 3 (2013): 669–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2013.117.
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AbstractThis article argues that in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England, changes in the perceived value of children, both materially and emotionally, put them in a new position of possible danger. The valorization of childhood brought new risks to children. Children were thought to be vulnerable to child abduction, or “child stealing,” as contemporaries termed it. Between 1790 and 1849, 108 cases of child abduction were tried at the Old Bailey and then recorded in its Proceedings or heard before magistrates in London's police courts and at county sessions courts and subsequently reported in newspapers. These cases, along with fictional accounts of child abduction, give insights into what were considered the most common motives for this crime. While some child abductors were motivated by poverty and saw children's clothes as economic assets that could be sold, others were driven by a desire to assume a mother role and represented stolen children as their own. Popular interest in abduction stories was sustained while contemporaries shared common fears about the loss of children and the limitations of adults to protect children from harm.
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Canales, Michael B., Matthew DeMore, Michael F. Bowen, Duane J. Ehredt, and Mark C. Razzante. "Fact or Fiction? Iatrogenic Hallux Abducto Valgus Secondary to Tibial Sesamoidectomy." Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery 54, no. 1 (2015): 82–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1053/j.jfas.2014.09.024.
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MacLeod, Mhairead Ellen. "Abduction : the writing of a historical novel." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2011. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/47637/1/Mhairead_MacLeod_Thesis.pdf.
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This is a practice-led project consisting of a historical novel Abduction and related exegesis.
The novel is a third person intimate narrative set in the mid-nineteenth century and is based on actual events and persons caught up in, or furthering, the mass dispossession of small farmers in Scotland known as the ‘Clearances’. The narrative focuses on the situation in the Outer Hebrides and northern Scotland. It is based on documented facts leading up to a controversial trial in 1850 that arose because a twenty year old woman of the period (the central protagonist, Jess Mackenzie) eloped with a young farmer to escape her parent’s pressure to marry a rival suitor, himself a powerful lawyer and ‘factor’ at the centre of many of the Clearances. The young woman’s independent ideas were ahead of her time, and the decisions she made under great pressure were crucial in some dramatic events that unfolded in Scotland and later in the colony of Victoria, to which she and her new husband emigrated soon after the trial.
The exegesis is composed of two unequal parts. It briefly considers the development of the literary historical fiction genre in the nineteenth century with Walter Scott in particular, a genre found useful in representing women’s issues of the Victorian era by Victorian and contemporary authors. The exegesis also briefly considers the appropriateness of the fiction genre (as opposed to creative nonfiction) in creating the lived experience in a fact-based work. The major part of the exegesis is a detailed, reflective analysis of the problem-solving process involved in writing the novel, structured by reference to Kate Grenville’s Searching for the Secret River – a work of metawriting that explains her creative process in researching and writing historical fiction based on fact.
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Weidenfeld, Nathalie. "Alien abduction narratives als moderne Erscheinungsform puritanischer Kultur : Kontinuitäten und Diskontinuitäten." Berlin dissertation.de, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2927799&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.
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Weidenfeld, Nathalie. "Alien abduction narratives als moderne Erscheinungsform puritanischer Kultur Kontinuitäten und Diskontinuitäten." Berlin dissertation.de, 2006. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2927799&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Wright, Katherine Jane. "Flight, fear or fantasy : abduction plots in fiction of the eighteenth century, 1740-1811." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25758.
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This thesis brings together eighteenth-century attitudes to the abduction of women portrayed by the law, by newspapers, and in fiction. I focus attention on the interest these different forms of narrative share in scrutinizing women’s behaviour and argue that the abduction plot is more important than its status as a stock literary convention would imply. Rather, it is a pliant, complex, and nuanced motif that allows writers the space to explore the difficult and contradictory position of women and attitudes to sexual relations. This thesis is divided into two parts. The first part comprises two chapters that look at abduction from an historical perspective. The first chapter examines the legal context of abduction as a criminal act and the second chapter examines the social context of ‘abduction’ as a euphemism for a sexual adventure. This part includes preliminary analysis of abduction plots in Charlotte Smith’s Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle (1788) and Ann Radcliffe’s The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story (1789). The second part comprises three chapters in which I read a range of novels for their abduction plots and scenes. Chapter three focusses on reviewing and on lesser known novels that are not widely read today. It examines the uneasy dialogue between novels and the way they were conveyed to readers. I argue that reviewing presents a discourse of aggression towards women. Chapter four considers abduction plots in domestic fiction focussing on a short story from Eliza Haywood’s The Female Spectator (1744-46), Samuel Richardson’s The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753-54), and Sarah Fielding’s The History of Ophelia (1760). Chapter five considers the gothic abduction plot in Frances Burney’s Camilla, or a Picture of Youth (1796), Charlotte Smith’s The Young Philosopher (1798) and Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest (1791). I take an historicist approach and underpin my analysis of fictional abduction plots with newspaper research that suggests ‘abduction’ had a meaning in social and cultural discourse that associated it with gossip and innuendo. This research demonstrates that newspapers played an important role in establishing the ambiguity of ‘abduction’ in the public consciousness. I argue that this journalistic discourse contributed to the suppression of abduction as a violent crime that endangered women. I suggest that the introduction of comprehensive reviewing created the space for a discourse of aggression to flourish. Many reviews are short, pithy comments criticising a novel as derivative, badly written, and immoral. I argue that a series of reviews appearing on a single page gives the impression that violence towards women is a normal everyday occurrence and abduction is a familiar hazard on the road to domestic felicity. I conclude that ‘abduction’ is a porous term in which disparate ideas – sexual aggression, violent crime, and euphemistic social commentary – are held in tension with each other. This tension enables a complex interpretation of what at first appears to be a simple narrative of violent male aggression and female culpability. The ambiguity this tension creates reveals the abduction plot as a versatile motif that challenges the social hierarchy and posits an alternative narrative for women.
Books on the topic "Abduction – Fiction"
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Magnani, Lorenzo. "Are Heuristics Knowledge–Enhancing? Abduction, Models, and Fictions in Science." In Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics. Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09159-4_3.
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Wagner, Tamara S. "Competitive Infant Care in Domestic Fiction." In The Victorian Baby in Print. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198858010.003.0004.
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This chapter analyses the critical representation of changing baby care methods in Charlotte Yonge’s fiction to parse the growing awareness of competitive parenting advice in Victorian culture. As a religious novelist dedicated to producing realist accounts of family life, Yonge creates unidealized infant protagonists who exhibit realistically described, age-appropriate behaviour. While they demonstrate the effects of different childrearing methods, Yonge avoids producing model children or parents. Instead, she depicts baby care as demanding domestic work that is rendered more difficult by the growing onslaught of contrasting opinions. Whereas her early marriage novel Heartsease (1854) describes maternal involvement in the day-to-day care of the young heroine’s first-born with unprecedented detail, both The Daisy Chain (1856) and Nuttie’s Father (1885) highlight the difficulties of a ‘mother-sister.’ In asserting the superiority of domestic realism over sensationalism, moreover, Yonge rewrites popular infant impostor plots while drawing on child abduction cases in the press and, in her late novel That Stick (1892), critically tackles the notorious vilification of workhouse nurseries. This still seldom discussed domestic writer thus negotiates shifting attitudes to and representations of babies and baby care. Her comments on changing practices alert us to the competitive parenting prevalent in Victorian Britain, how such a sense of competition was fostered by divergent childrearing advice, how damaging this could be, and how it already began to attract critical remarks at the time.
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Towlson, Jon. "Introduction: ‘The UFOs Are Coming!’." In Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Liverpool University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781911325079.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter provides an overview of Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). Close Encounters is a UFO movie that arose from a resurgence of ufology in the 1970s, which coincided with the growth of New Age movements, mysticism, alien-abduction cults, and an increasing belief in conspiracy theories. The film speaks to Utopianism, the belief within international relations theory that war can be eliminated either by perfecting man or by perfecting government. Utopianism is, of course, a key concept in science fiction. The chapter then looks at Jack Kroll's review of Close Encounters, which demonstrates how so many of the political criticisms surrounding the film stem from the time of its initial reception, and how its cultural denotation as ‘transcendent’ science fiction was immediately recognised and accepted by some — but not all — critics. The chapter also details the synopsis of the film.
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Fass, Paula S. "“The Most Amazing Crime in the History of Chicago-and of the United States” Leopold and Loeb." In Kidnapped. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195117097.003.0003.
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Abstract Richard Loeb and Na than Leopold plotted every detail of their planned abduction (a plot deeply informed by their knowledge of actual cases and detective fiction)—everything except the identity of the victim. This they left to chance and opportunity. Even the ransom notes, which were painstakingly cast in advance, left the name of the victim’s family deliberately blank, to be filled in only after the crime had been committed. On the day of the kidnapping, Leopold and Loeb had considered several children (all boys) who caught their attention in the school yard of the elite Harvard School in Chicago where they went in search of a victim. But only Robert (Bobby) Franks, a neighbor of Loeb’s and a distant cousin, presented just the combination of accessibility and opportunity that would pay off. It was therefore fourteen-year-old Bobby who, in the late afternoon of May 21, 1924, was lured into the Willys-Knight automobile that Leopold rented especially for the occasion.
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Heim, Michael. "AWS and UFOs." In Virtual Realism. Oxford University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195104264.003.0012.
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Something....-What? —A phenomenon. Something intrusive, something vague but insistent, pushing itself upon us. — Something outside? From afar? Something alien? — Something descending in the night, standing in the shadows at the foot of the bed. —An illusion? Hallucination maybe? A quirky twist of imagination? — No, definitely a presence, something that might be a someone, a someone with wires and electric sensors, probing, penetrating, exploring private parts. Something lifting us off the familiar face of the planet we thought we knew so well, beaming us outside the orbit of our comfortable homes. Definitely something indefinite . . . or someone. —We hear about them only from others who speak about sightings of unidentified objects in the sky, because we do not allow ourselves to be counted among the unstable few who acknowledge the possibility of something outside the circle of our sciences. Those unstable few accept belief in something standing in the shadows at the door. We listen closely to those speaking about incidents of the phenomenon. We do not look. — Something IS out there. We’ve seen and heard it in the night. It’s contacting us. The phenomenon certainly exists in late-night chat like the above. It exists as metaphysical hearsay, as an internal dialogue between what we believe and what we think we are willing to believe. Popular descriptions of “the incident” waver between child-like awe and tongue-in-cheek tabloid humor. Here is where our knowledge, as a culturally defined certainty, becomes most vulnerable. Here we discover the soft edges of knowledge as an established and culturally underwritten form of belief. What a thrill to feel the tug of war on the thin thread of shared belief! A blend of religious archetypes and science-fiction imagery supplies the words for those who tell about the incident. The stories often float up through hypnosis or “recovered memory” hypnotherapy, as in the famous case of Betty and Barney Hill who experienced abduction one September night in New Hampshire in 1961. Researchers have recently plotted consistently recurring patterns in thousands of stories, and the mythic dimension of the story line has not been lost on Hollywood.
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Silver, Carole G. "“Come Away Thou Human Child”: Abductions, Change, and Changelings." In Strange And Secret Peoples. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195121995.003.0003.
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Abstract When, In A Climatic Moment in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights (1847), Lockwood is troubled by an apparition of Catherine Earnshaw and hysterically exclaims “she must have been a changeling-wicked little soul” (p. 13), he is expressing a fantastic anxiety peculiar to the period. Similarly, when Edward Rochester, angered at her rejection of his prenuptial caresses, accuses Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre of being not his Jane but a “changeling,” he is attempting to fathom what to him is a strange transformation in personality and behavior. In actuality even more than in fiction, changelings-that is, children perceived as abnormal surreptitiously sub stituted for normal ones-were very much a part of the Victorian world. An article in the Daily Telegraph of 19 May 1884 informed readers that Ellen Cushion and Anastatia Rourke were arrested at Clonmel on Saturday charged with cruelly illtreating a child three years old, named Philip Dillon. The prisoners were taken before the Mayor, when evidence was given showing that the neighbours fancied that the boy, who had not the use of his limbs, was a changeling left by the fairies in ex change for the original child. While the mother was absent, the prisoners entered her house and placed the lad naked on a hot shovel under the impression that this would break the charm.