Twice Upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale
- List Price: $45.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publish date: 08/01/2001
Grounded firmly in social history and set in lucid prose, Twice upon a Time refocuses the lens through which we look at fairy tales. The conteuses saw their tales as amusements for sophisticated adults in the salon, not for children. Self-referential, often parodic, and set in elaborate frames, their works often criticize the social expectations that determined the lives of women at the court of Louis XIV.
After examining the evolution of the "Anglo-American" fairy tale and its place in this variegated history, Harries devotes the rest of her book to recent women writers -- A. S. Byatt, Anne Sexton, Angela Carter, and Emma Donoghue among them -- who have returned to fairy-tale motifs so as to challenge modern-day gender expectations. Late-twentieth-century tales, like the conteuses', force us to rethink our conception of fairy tales and of their history.
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