Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned
Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition
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Author
Contributions
- Gretchen Schultz - Editor
- Lewis Seifert - Editor
- 2016 by Princeton University Press - Copyright
- For our sons, Julian Schultz and Andrew and Patrick Gordon-Seifert - Dedicated to
- Jack Zipes - Series General Editor
Publication
2019-06-18 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Language
English
Word Count
74,000 words, Guess
Page Count
296 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28250300M
- ISBN-139780691191416
- ISBN-100691191417
- Library of Congress Control Number2015051218
- Amazon0691191417
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- Goodreads42585141
Classifications
- DDC843/.0208--dc23
- LCCPQ1278 .F35 2016
Description
**A new collection of subversive French fairy tales** 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, most newly translated, by writers associated with the decadent literary movement that flourished in late nineteenth-century France. 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 French fairy tales, as well as Arthurian legends and English and German tales, these decadent fairy tales feature perverse settings and disillusioned perspectives, underlining such themes as the decline of civilization, the degeneration of magic and the unreal, gender confusion, and the incursion of the industrial. Complete with an informative introduction, biographical notes for each author, and explanatory notes throughout, these subversive tales will entertain and startle even the most disenchanted readers.
Subjects
Series Statement
- Oddly Modern Fairy Tales, #11
Other Editions
- Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition
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