Fairy Tales: A New History

Fairy Tales: A New History

by Ruth B. Bottigheimer
Fairy Tales: A New History

Fairy Tales: A New History

by Ruth B. Bottigheimer

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Overview

Overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents their actual origins and transmission.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781438425245
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 03/26/2009
Series: Excelsior Editions
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 160
Sales rank: 1,039,223
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Ruth B. Bottigheimer teaches European fairy tales and British children's literature at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. She is the coeditor (with Leela Prasad and Lalita Handoo) of Gender and Story in South India, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of several books, including Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Why a New History of Fairy Tales?

2. Two Accounts of the Grimms’ Tales: The Folk as Creator, The Book as Source

3. The Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Layers: Perrault, Lhéritier, and Their Successors

4. The Two Inventors of Fairy Tale Tradition: Giambattista Basile (1634–1636) and Giovan Francesco Straparola (1551, 1553)

5. A New History

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