Cunningham, Valentine. "Soiled Fairy: The Water-Babies
in its Time," Essays in Criticism Vol. XXXV, No. 2 (April 1985):
121-48.
Cunningham analyzes many of the causes and issues Kingsley treats with
heat and hysteria in The Water-Babies declaring that they frequently
coincide with the age’s heatedness and hysterias for these causes and issues.
Cunningham also discusses The Water-Babies’ various affinities to
other classic fairy-story motifs.
The
Water-Babies;
Social
and Political Views;
Fairy-Story
Motifs;
Sanitation;
Cheap
Clothes and Nasty; Glaucus;
Religion.
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