num_pages: 247
description: From eighteenth-century courtiers to Cocteau, from Freudians to prime time TV, "Beauty and the Beast" has captured the artistic and popular imagination. Betsy Hearne brings a storyteller's verve and insight to an examination of one of western culture's most powerful and persistent myths.
language: English
title: Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale
titlecomplete: Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale
genres: Mythology, Criticism, Reference, Adult, Beauty and The Beast, Retellings, Folklore, Fairy Tales, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 56
publisher: University of Chicago Press