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Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales is a translation and critical edition that fills a current gap in fairy-tale scholarship by making accessible texts written by nineteenth-century British, French, and German women authors who...
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Wayne State University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Detroit, Michigan : |
| Publication Dates: | [2021] |
| Literature type: | Book |
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English French German |
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Series in fairy-tale studies
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Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales is a translation and critical edition that fills a current gap in fairy-tale scholarship by making accessible texts written by nineteenth-century British, French, and German women authors who used the genre of the fairy tale to address issues such as class, race, and female agency. These shared themes crossed national borders are due to both communication among these writers and changes in nineteenth-century European societies that similarly affected women in Western Europe. In effect, the combined texts reveal a common, transnational tradition of fairy tales by women writers who grapple with gender, sexual, social, and racial issues in a post-French Revolution Europe. The anthology provides insight into the ways the fairy tale served as a vehicle for women writers-often marginalized and excluded from more official or public genres-to engage in very serious debates. Women Writing Wonder, divided into three parts by country, features tales that depict relationships that cross class and racial divides, thus challenging normative marriage practices; critically examine traditional fairy-tale tropes, such as happily ever after and the need for a woman to marry; challenge the perception that fairy-tale collecting, editing, and creation was male work, associated particularly with the Grimms; and demonstrate the role of women in the development of the emerging field of children's literature and moral tales. Through their tales, these women question, among other issues, the genre of the fairy tale itself, playing with the conventional fairy-tale narrative to compose their proto-feminist tales. By bringing these tales together, editors and translators Julie L.J. Koehler, Shandi Lynne Wagner, Anne E. Duggan, and Adrion Dula hope both to foreground women writers' important contributions to the genre and to challenge common assumptions about what a fairy tale is for scho |
| Carrier Form: | vii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-371) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780814345009 081434500X 9780814345016 0814345018 |
| Index Number: | GR552 |
| CLC: | I508.8 |
| Call Number: | I508.8/W872 |
| Contents: |
Nineteenth-century French women write fairy tales. Pamrose, or The Palace and the cottage (1801) / The story of little Clotilde (1817) / Rose and black (1818) / The rose cloud (1872) / The ogress, Béatrix de Mauléon (1872) / German women writers and the legacy of the fairy tale. Princess Geldena of water city (1801) / The deer (1801) / The tears (1806) / Beardless Hans (1808) / The three little men in the wood (1812) / Princess Elmina (1818) / The forest fairy tale (1844) / Of rabbits: letter to Achim von Arnim (1850s) / Black and white (1869) / Lotte the grump (1899) / Fairy tales and feminism in nineteenth-century Great Britain. The invisible girl (1833) / The sleeping beauty (1837) / Curious, if true (1860) / The prince's progress (1866) / The seeds of love (1877) / Virgin soil (1894) / |