A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in the Long Eighteenth Century

Anne E. Duggan is Professor of French Studies in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Wayne State University, USA. She is co-editor of Marvels and Tales: The Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies and author of Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies: The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France (2005; 2nd edn 2021) and Queer Enchantments: Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy (2013; French translation 2015). She also coedited Folktales and Fairy Tales: traditions and Texts from around the World (4 vols., 2016) and Women Writing Wonder: An Anthology of Subversive Nineteenth-century British, French, and German Fairy Tales (2021).

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Introduction: The Emergence of the Classic Fairy-Tale Tradition
Anne E. Duggan, Wayne State University, USA

Chapter 1: The Age of the merveilleux: Forms of Marvelous in the Eighteenth Century
Tatiana Korneeva, University of Venice and Freie Universität Berlin

Chapter 2: Fairy-Tale Adaptations in the Long Eighteenth Century
Charlotte Trinquet du Lys, University of Central Florida, USA

Chapter 3: Gender and Sexuality
Aileen Douglas, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Chapter 4: The Human and the Non-Human in Fairy Tales, 1650-1800
Lewis C. Seifert, Brown University, USA

Chapter 5: Monsters and the Monstrous: Of Ogre Pyramids, Ruby-Eyed Dragons, and Gnomes with Crooked Spines
Kathryn A. Hoffmann, University of Hawai‘I, USA

Chapter 6:Space and Narrative Strategies in Eighteenth-Century Tales in East and West
Richard van Leeuwen, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Chapter 7: Slight Channels: Socialization in Tales of Wonder
Rania Huntington, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Chaper 8: Political and Social Power in Fairy and Oriental Tales
Anne E. Duggan, Wayne State University, USA

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