num_pages: 214
description: Jack Zipes develops a social history of the fairy tale and shows how educated writers purposefully appropriated the oral folk tale in the eighteenth century and made it into a discourse about mores, values, and manners.
language: English
title: Fairy tales and the art of subversion: The classical genre for children and the process of civilization
titlecomplete: Fairy tales and the art of subversion: The classical genre for children and the process of civilization
genres: Fairy Tales, Literary Criticism, Research, History, Academic, Reference, Criticism, Folklore, Nonfiction, Literature
ratings_count: 357
publisher: Methuen