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  • Appropriated Tales

    Race and the Disney Fairy-Tale Mode

    Series series The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
    An excavation of how Disney films shape culture—and misrepresent it.In Appropriated Tales, scholar Michelle Anya Anjirbag examines Disney's method of fairy-tale storytelling to determine how the corporation has shaped public understanding of what fairy tales are and who belongs within them. Covering a span of years "from mermaid to mermaid"—from the 1989 animated The Little Mermaid to the 2023 ... Read more

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  • Tales for Fairies

    Tracing Queer Fairy-Tale Retellings

    Series series The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
    A groundbreaking exploration of how classic fairy tales have been transformed to illuminate and celebrate queer identities.This scholarly account provides a trailblazing examination of how contemporary authors, artists, and creators have reclaimed the fairy tale for queer audiences. Alba Morollón Díaz-Faes examines the queer threads in classic fairy tales—like those in the works of Giambattista ... Read more

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  • Specters of the Marvelous

    Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale

    Series series The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
    A transformative lens revealing the historical racial context that profoundly influenced European fairy tales.Winner, Chicago Folklore Prize 2025!In stories retold for generations, wondrous worlds and magnificent characters have defined the genre of European fairy tales with little recognition of yet another defining aspect—racism and racialized thinking. Engaging four classic fairy-tale ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women Writing Wonder

    An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales

    Series series The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
    Critical anthology of fairy tales by nineteenth-century British, French, and German women writers.Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales is a translation and critical edition that fills a current gap in fairy-tale scholarship by making accessible texts written by nineteenth-century British, French, and German women authors who ... Read more

    $36.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Queer Enchantments

    Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy

    Series series The Donald Haase Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
    Examines director Jacques Demy's use of the fairy tale as a means to explore issues of gender, sexuality, and class.To the uninitiated, the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy can seem strange and even laughable, with their gaudy color schemes and sung dialogue. Yet since the late 1990s, a generation of queer filmmakers in France have found new inspiration in Demy's cinema. In this ... Read more

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  • The Lost Princess

    Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales

    People often associate fairy tales with Disney films, and with the male authors from whom Disney often drew inspiration – notably Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. In these portrayals the princess is a passive, compliant figure. By contrast, The Lost Princess shows that classic fairy tales such as ‘Cinderella’, ‘Rapunzel’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast’ have a much ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies, revised edition

    The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France

    The original edition of Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies, published in 2005, was a pathbreaking work of early modern literary history, exploring women’s role in the rise of the fairy tale and their use of this new genre to carve out roles as major contributors to the literature of their time. This new edition, with a new introduction and a forward by acclaimed scholar Allison Stedman, emphasizes ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Eighteenth Century

    Edited by Professor Anne E. Duggan ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    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 d'Aulnoy and Marie-Jeanne ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Folktales and Fairy Tales

    Traditions and Texts from around the World [4 volumes]

    Encyclopedic in its coverage, this one-of-a-kind reference is ideal for students, scholars, and others who need reliable, up-to-date information on folk and fairy tales, past and present.Folktales and fairy tales have long played an important role in cultures around the world. They pass customs and lore from generation to generation, provide insights into the peoples who created them, and offer ... Read more

    $379.69 USD

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    by Jack Zipes ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    The fairy tale is arguably one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until the first publication of Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children's lives – their behavior, values, and relationship to society.As Jack ... Read more

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    The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children's lives – their behavior, values, and relationship to society. As Jack Zipes convincingly shows, fairy ... Read more

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  • The Great Cat Massacre

    And Other Episodes in French Cultural History

    **The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.“Robert Darnton has the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter, the thoroughness of a rigorous scholar, and the sensitivity of a novelist.” —New Republic**When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD