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Fairy Tales: A New History

By Ruth B. Bottigheimer
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By Ruth B. Bottigheimer
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Overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents their actual origins and transmission.

2009 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

Where did Cinderella come from? Puss in Boots? Rapunzel? The origins of fairy tales are looked at in a new way in these highly engaging pages. Conventional wisdom holds that fairy tales originated in the oral traditions of peasants and were recorded for posterity by the Brothers Grimm during the nineteenth century. Ruth B. Bottigheimer overturn...

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LiteratureSocial SciencesLiterary CriticismFolklore & MythologyGenres & Literary FormsFables, Fairy Tales, & Folk Tales - Literary CriticismFairy TalesFairy tales->History and criticism