Twice upon a time: women writers and the history of the fairy tale

Abstract

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii INTRODUCTION: Once, Not Long Ago 3 CHAPTER ONE: Fairy Tales about Fairy Tales: Notes on Canon Formation 19 CHAPTER TWO: Voices in Print: Oralities in the Fairy Tale 46 CHAPTER THREE: The Invention of the Fairy Tale in Britain 73 INTERLUDE: Once Again 99 CHAPTER FOUR: New Frames for Old Tales 104 CHAPTER FIVE: The Art of Transliteration 135 CONCLUSION: Twice-Told Tales 160 NOTES 165 BIBLIOGRAPHY 193 INDEX 211