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The teller's tale : lives of the classic fairy tale writers / edited by Sophie Raynard.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fairy tales--History and criticism.
- Fairy tales.
- Authors--Biography.
- Authors.
- Children's literature, European--History and criticism.
- Children's literature, European.
- Fairy tales--Authorship.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (193 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Intriguing, updated portraits of classic fairy tale authors.
- Contents:
- The Teller's Tale: Lives of the Classic Fairy Tale Writers
- The Teller's Tale: Lives of the Classic Fairy Tale Writers
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I: Emergence: Straparola: Sixteenth-Century Italy, Basile: Seventeenth-Century Italy
- Europe's First Fairy Tales
- Giovan Francesco Straparola: 1485?-1556?
- Giambattista Basile: 1575?-1632
- Part II: Elaboration: Perrault and the Conteuses Précieuses Seventeenth-Century France
- Sophistication and Modernization of the Fairy Tale: 1690-1709
- Charles Perrault: 1628-1703
- Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy: 1650/51?-1705
- Catherine Bernard: 1663?-1712
- Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier de Villandon :1664-1734
- Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, Countess de Murat: 1668?-1716
- Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force: 1650?-1724
- Part III: Exoticism Galland Eighteenth-Century France
- Antoine Galland: 1646-1715
- Part IV: Didacticism Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont Eighteenth-Century France
- Jeanne-Marie Leprince (or Le Prince) de Beaumont: 1711-1780?
- Part V: Traditionalization: Naubert: Late Eighteenth-Century and Early Nineteenth-Century Germany, The Grimms: Nineteenth-Century Germany, Bechstein: Nineteenth-Century Germany
- The Legacy of the Eighteenth-Century and Nineteenth-Century German Female Storytellers
- Benedikte Naubert
- Jacob Grimm 1785-1863 Wilhelm Grimm: 1786-1859
- Ludwig Bechstein
- Part VI: Sentimentalization: Andersen Nineteenth-Century Denmark
- Hans Christian Andersen
- List of Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438443560
- 1438443560
- 9781461917960
- 1461917964
- OCLC:
- 817565713
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