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Fairy tales : a new history /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bottigheimer, Ruth B.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany, N.Y. : Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Fairy tales > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Why a new history of fairy tales?
  • Two accounts of the Grimm's tales : the folk as creator, the book as source
  • The late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century layers : Perrault, Lhéritier, and their successors
  • The two inventors of fairy tale tradition : Giambattista Basile (1634-1636) and Giovan Francesco Straparola (1551, 1553)
  • A new history.