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The Teller's Tale: Lives of the Classic Fairy Tale Writers,Used
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Intriguing, updated portraits of classic fairy tale authors.This book offers new, often unexpected, but always intriguing portraits of the writers of classic fairy tales. For years these authors, who wrote from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, have been either little known or known through skewed, frequently sentimentalized biographical information. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were cast as exemplars of national virtues; Hans Christian Andersens life becamewith his participationa fairy tale in itself. JeanneMarie Leprince de Beaumont, the prim governess who wrote moral tales for girls, had a more colorful past than her readers would have imagined, and few people knew that nineteenyearold MarieCatherine dAulnoy conspired to kill her mucholder husband. Important figures about whom little is known, such as Giovan Francesco Straparola and Giambattista Basile, are rendered more completely than ever before. Uncovering what was obscured for years and with newly discovered evidence, contributors to this fascinating and muchneeded volume provide a historical context for Europes fairy tales.A stellar cast of international scholars, including Ruth Bottigheimer, Nancy Canepa, and Shawn Jarvis, have produced these portraits. Several of the entries were translated by the editor, who also provides a graceful introduction. A slender and very valuable contribution to fairy tales studies, this book will be useful to a broad audience Highly recommended. CHOICEa handbook which will be of considerable use for teaching and research this collection is welcome, not least for its international reach, which should make the fairy tale a particularly rewarding genre for students of comparative literature. Times Literary Supplement
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