A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Eighteenth Century
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 13 November 2025
- ISBN 9781350594135
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 244x168x18 mm
- Weight 440 g
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- Illustrations 27 bw illus 700
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Short description:
This volume traces the evolution of the fairy tale over the period known as the long eighteenth century.
MoreLong description:
How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies?
This volume traces the evolution of the genre over the period known as the long eighteenth century. It explores key developments including: the French fairy tale vogue of the 1690s, dominated by women authors including Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy and Marie-Jeanne Lhï¿1⁄2ritier, the fashion of the oriental tale in the early eighteenth century, launched by Antoine Galland's seminal translation of The Thousand and One Nights from Arabic into French, and the birth of European children's literature in the second half of the eighteenth century.
Drawing together contributions from an international range of scholars in history, literature and cultural studies, this volume examines the intersections between diverse national tale traditions through different critical perspectives, producing an authoritative transnational history of the genre.
An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of literature, history and cultural studies, this book explores such themes and topics as: forms of the marvelous, adaptation, gender and sexuality, humans and non-humans, monsters and the monstrous, spaces, socialization, and power.
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales (6-volume set)
A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Eighteenth Century is also available as a part of a 6-volume set, A Cultural History of Fairy Tales, tracing fairy tales from antiquity to the present day, available in print, or within a fully-searchable digital library accessible through institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com). Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Series Preface
Introduction: The Emergence of the Classic Fairy-Tale Tradition
Anne E. Duggan, Wayne State University, USA
Chapter 1: The Age of the merveilleux: Forms of Marvelous in the Eighteenth Century
Tatiana Korneeva, University of Venice and Freie Universitï¿1⁄2t Berlin
Chapter 2: Fairy-Tale Adaptations in the Long Eighteenth Century
Charlotte Trinquet du Lys, University of Central Florida, USA
Chapter 3: Gender and Sexuality
Aileen Douglas, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Chapter 4: The Human and the Non-Human in Fairy Tales, 1650-1800
Lewis C. Seifert, Brown University, USA
Chapter 5: Monsters and the Monstrous: Of Ogre Pyramids, Ruby-Eyed Dragons, and Gnomes with Crooked Spines
Kathryn A. Hoffmann, University of Hawai'I, USA
Chapter 6:Space and Narrative Strategies in Eighteenth-Century Tales in East and West
Richard van Leeuwen, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Chapter 7: Slight Channels: Socialization in Tales of Wonder
Rania Huntington, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Chaper 8: Political and Social Power in Fairy and Oriental Tales
Anne E. Duggan, Wayne State University, USA
Notes
Bibliography
Index
