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Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition
Gretchen (E Schultz
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Description for Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition
Hardback. "The present volume contains thirty-five fairy tales by nineteen writers, presented chronologically by author"--Introduction. Editor(s): Schultz, Gretchen; Seifert, Professor Lewis. Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 151 x 206 x 25. Weight in Grams: 430.
The wolf is tricked by Red Riding Hood into strangling her grandmother and is subsequently arrested. Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella do not live happily ever after. And the fairies are saucy, angry, and capricious. Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned collects thirty-six tales, many newly translated, by writers associated with the decadent literary movement, which flourished in France in the late nineteenth century. Written by such creative luminaries as Charles Baudelaire, Anatole France, and Guillaume Apollinaire, these enchanting yet troubling stories reflect the concerns and fascinations of a time of great political, social, and cultural change. Recasting well-known favorites from classic ... Read more
The wolf is tricked by Red Riding Hood into strangling her grandmother and is subsequently arrested. Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella do not live happily ever after. And the fairies are saucy, angry, and capricious. Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned collects thirty-six tales, many newly translated, by writers associated with the decadent literary movement, which flourished in France in the late nineteenth century. Written by such creative luminaries as Charles Baudelaire, Anatole France, and Guillaume Apollinaire, these enchanting yet troubling stories reflect the concerns and fascinations of a time of great political, social, and cultural change. Recasting well-known favorites from classic ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Oddly Modern Fairy Tales
Condition
New
Weight
430g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691161655
SKU
V9780691161655
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About Gretchen (E Schultz
Gretchen Schultz is professor of French studies at Brown University. Her recent books include Sapphic Fathers: Discourses of Same-Sex Desire from Nineteenth-Century France and An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women's Poetry from France. Lewis Seifert is professor of French studies at Brown University. He is the author of Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690-1715 and Manning the Margins: Masculinity ... Read more
Reviews for Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition
[F]un and intriguing ... [E]xcellent windows into a period in history, especially in France, when politics and world strife ... made it hard to embrace the [happily ever after] of the popular fairy tales.
Heidi Anne Heiner, SurLaLune Fairy Tales [S]ometimes sardonic, sometimes brutal, often blackly funny and possessed of a peculiarly modern sensibility.
Cameron Woodhead, Sydney Morning Herald ... Read more
Heidi Anne Heiner, SurLaLune Fairy Tales [S]ometimes sardonic, sometimes brutal, often blackly funny and possessed of a peculiarly modern sensibility.
Cameron Woodhead, Sydney Morning Herald ... Read more