A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Eighteenth Century

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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 dAulnoy and Marie-Jeanne Lhritier, the fashion of the oriental tale in the early eighteenth century, launched by Antoine Gallands seminal translation of The Thousand and One Nights from Arabic into French, and the birth of European childrens 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 Antiquity 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.

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Anne E. Duggan is Professor of French Studies in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Wayne State University, USA. She is co-editor of Marvels and Tales: The Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies and author of Salonnires, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France (2005; 2nd edn 2021) and Queer Enchantments: Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy (2013; French translation 2015). She also coedited Folktales and Fairy Tales: traditions and Texts from around the World (4 vols., 2016) and Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-century British, French, and German Fairy Tales (2021).