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Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned: Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Gretchen Schultz
Edited by Lewis Seifert
SeriesOddly Modern Fairy Tales
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:296
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 140
ISBN/Barcode 9780691191416
ClassificationsDewey:398.20944
Audience
Undergraduate
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Illustrations 14 b + w illus.

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 18 June 2019
Publication Country United States

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,

Author Biography

Gretchen Schultz and Lewis Seifert are professors of French studies at Brown University.

Reviews

"In these deliberately tarnished tales ... wondrousness mainly shines through in their often beautiful imagery."-Michael Dirda, Washington Post "This is a wonderful resource for scholars of fairy tales and decadent literature and a timely, thought-provoking collection for nonspecialists."-Choice "Besides being a thoroughly engaging read, Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned is an extraordinary contribution to the fairy-tale canon.... Schultz and Seifert have managed to recover a little bit of the magic so necessary for modern life."-Victoria Leslie, Gramarye Journal "Sometimes sardonic, sometimes brutal, often blackly funny and possessed of a peculiarly modern sensibility."-Cameron Woodhead, Sydney Morning Herald