Cinderella's Glass Slipper: Towards a Cultural History of Renaissance Materialities

by Genevieve Warwick

Cinderella's Glass Slipper studies Renaissance material cultures through the literary prism of fairy-tale objects. The literary fairy-tale first arose in Renaissance Venice, originating from oral story-telling traditions that would later become the Arabian Nights, and subsequently in the Parisian salons of Louis XIV. Largely written by, for, and in the name of women, these literary fairy-tales took a lightly comic view of life's vicissitudes, especially...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009263986
• ISBN13: 9781009263986
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"