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Women Writing Wonder - An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales (Hardcover)
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Women Writing Wonder - An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-Century British, French, and German Fairy Tales (Hardcover)
Series: Series in Fairy-Tale Studies
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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 used the genre of the fairy
tale to address issues such as class, race, and female agency.
These shared themes crossed national borders are due to both
communication among these writers and changes in nineteenth-century
European societies that similarly affected women in Western Europe.
In effect, the combined texts reveal a common, transnational
tradition of fairy tales by women writers who grapple with gender,
sexual, social, and racial issues in a post-French Revolution
Europe. The anthology provides insight into the ways the fairy tale
served as a vehicle for women writers-often marginalized and
excluded from more official or public genres-to engage in very
serious debates. Women Writing Wonder, divided into three parts by
country, features tales that depict relationships that cross class
and racial divides, thus challenging normative marriage practices;
critically examine traditional fairy-tale tropes, such as ""happily
ever after"" and the need for a woman to marry; challenge the
perception that fairy-tale collecting, editing, and creation was
male work, associated particularly with the Grimms; and demonstrate
the role of women in the development of the emerging field of
children's literature and moral tales. Through their tales, these
women question, among other issues, the genre of the fairy tale
itself, playing with the conventional fairy-tale narrative to
compose their proto-feminist tales. By bringing these tales
together, editors and translators Julie L. J. Koehler, Shandi Lynne
Wagner, Anne E. Duggan, and Adrion Dula hope both to foreground
women writers' important contributions to the genre and to
challenge common assumptions about what a fairy tale is for
scholars, students, and general readers.
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