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vii, 376 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm. |
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Series in fairy-tale studies |
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Series in fairy-tale studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Nineteenth-century French women write fairy tales. Pamrose, or The Palace and the cottage (1801) / Stéphanie Félicité de Genlis ; The story of little Clotilde (1817) / Julie Delafaye-Bréhier ; Rose and black (1818) / Félicité de Chosiseul-Meuse ; The rose cloud (1872) / George Sand ; The ogress, Béatrix de Mauléon (1872) / Louise Michel -- German women writers and the legacy of the fairy tale. Princess Geldena of water city (1801) / Anonymous author of Feen-Mährchen ; The deer (1801) / Sophie Tieck Bernhardi von Knorring ; The tears (1806) / Caroline de la Motte Fouqué ; Beardless Hans (1808) / Frau Lehnhardt and Bettina von Arnim ; The three little men in the wood (1812) / Dortchen Wild Grimm ; Princess Elmina (1818) / Karoline Stahl ; The forest fairy tale (1844) / Adele Schopenhauer ; Of rabbits: letter to Achim von Arnim (1850s) / Gisela von Arnim ; Black and white (1869) / Elisabeth Ebeling ; Lotte the grump (1899) / Hedwig Dohm -- Fairy tales and feminism in nineteenth-century Great Britain. The invisible girl (1833) / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ; The sleeping beauty (1837) / Letitia Elizabeth Landon ; Curious, if true (1860) / Elizabeth Gaskell ; The prince's progress (1866) / Christina Rossetti ; The seeds of love (1877) / Mary de Morgan ; Virgin soil (1894) / George Egerton. |
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Text in English, some translated from French, some from German. |
| Summary |
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 scholars, students, and general readers. |
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Fairy tales -- Europe.
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Women authors -- 19th century.
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Fairy tales -- 19th century.
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Fairy tales -- Europe -- 19th century.
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Fairy tales. (OCoLC)fst00919916
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Women authors. (OCoLC)fst01177198
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Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Koehler, Julie L. J., editor, translator.
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Wagner, Shandi Lynne, editor, translator.
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Duggan, Anne E., 1967- editor, translator.
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Dula, Adrion, editor, translator.
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| ISBN |
9780814345009 (hardcover) |
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081434500X (hardcover) |
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9780814345016 (paperback) |
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0814345018 (paperback) |
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9780814345023 (e-book) |
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