Fairy Tale Queens: Representations of Early Modern Queenship

by Jo Eldridge Carney

Book Overview

Most of our fairy tale capital today comes from the popular tales of Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen, but this study encourages readers to explore the marvelous tales of authors from the early modern period-Giovanni Straparola, Giambattista Basile, Madame Marie-Catherine D'Aulnoy, and others-whose works enrich and expand our notion of the canon. The queen is omnipresent in these tales, as much a hallmark of the genre...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137269685
• ISBN13: 9781137269683
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"