Mother Goose Refigured: A Critical Translation of Charles Perrault's Fairy Tales

by Christine A. Jones

Mother Goose Refigured presents annotated translations of Charles Perrault's 1697 fairy tales that attend to the irony and ambiguity in the original French and provide a fresh take on heroines and heroes that have become household names in North America.

Charles Perrault published Histoires ou Contes du temps pass ("Stories or Tales of the Past") in France in 1697 during what scholars call the first "vogue" of tales...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814338925
• ISBN13: 9780814338926
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"