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How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? This volume traces the evolution of the genre over the period known as the long eighteenth century. It explores key developments including: the French fairy tale vogue of the 1690s, dominated by women authors including Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy and Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier, the fashion of the oriental tale in the ea...

Once upon a time: the forgotten female fabulists whose heroines flipped the fairy tale script. People often associate fairy tales with Disney films and with the male authors from whom Disney often drew inspiration--notably Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen. In these portrayals, the princess is a passive, compliant figure. By contrast, The Lost Princess shows that classic fairy tales such as "Cinderella, " "Rapun...

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This book investigates whether the popular conception of Becket through the ages is a result of valid assessments of the man and his cause, or a product of a carefully constructed myth, and how far can one correct for the bias and reach 'the truth'. The question 'Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?' must be one of the most notorious in history. Four knights interpreted it as a hint from their sovereign, rode to Canterbury, and there in h...

This new edition of Anne Duggan’s Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies emphasizes the field-changing impacts of the original, which focused on two of the most prolific seventeenth-century women writers, Madeleine de Scudéry and Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, to demonstrate how women helped create the fairy tale genre, staking their claim as major authors of their day. Using novels, chronicles, and fairy tales, Scudéry and d’Aulnoy responded to and part...

This new edition of Anne Duggan’s Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies emphasizes the field-changing impacts of the original, which focused on two of the most prolific seventeenth-century women writers, Madeleine de Scudéry and Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, to demonstrate how women helped create the fairy tale genre, staking their claim as major authors of their day. Using novels, chronicles, and fairy tales, Scudéry and d’Aulnoy responded to and part...

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Thomas Becket's life was lived on a European stage, his cause was conducted in a European setting, and the cult of the new martyr spread with extraordinary rapidity to the furthest reaches of Latin Christendom before the end of the twelfth century. Based on the critical examination of manuscripts and texts, this collection focuses first on the papal curia and Becket's household in exile. Studies deal with Becket's letters and their authorship ...

Excerpt from Folk Dances of the British IslesThe specific units into which this collection of folk dances is divided are preceded by the following introductory materials to serve as aids in the use of the volume. These materials comprise three sections.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forg...

Excerpt from Folk Dances of ScandinaviaIt is the sincere hope of the authors that The Folk Dance Library will prove a source of aid to those whose needs were anticipated in its purposes, and that folk dance will become a living and enriching folk art to boys and girls as well as to men and women everywhere.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book ...