This book shows that the brothers Grimm deserve the respect and affection also for reasons other than the discovery of the Marchen. It focuses on the folktale as a subject for serious enquiry.
This is the first modern biography of the Brothers Grimm, first published in 1970. It is a study of them in their background of late eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century Germany, and shows the position they held in their society as founders of Germanic philology, as members...