- 256 pages
- English
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A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Modern Age
About this book
How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? Drawing together contributions from an international range of scholars in history, literature, and cultural studies, this volume uniquely examines creative applications of fairy tales in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It explores how the fairy tale has become a genre that flourishes on film, on TV, and in digital media, as well as in the older technologies of print, performance, and the visual arts. An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of literature, history, the visual arts 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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Illllustrations
- Series Preface
- Introduction: Fairy Tale in the Modern Age
- 1 Forms of the Marvelous
- 2 Adaptation
- 3 Gender and Sexuality
- 4 Humans and Non-Humans: Nature, Anima, Matter
- 5 Monsters and the Monstrous
- 6 Space: The Magically Real Spaces of Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Fairy Tale
- 7 Socialization: Traditional Wonder Tales and Other Guides for Growing Up
- 8 Power: The Archaeology of a Genre
- Notes
- References
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Imprint