num_pages: 480
description: This study looks beyond the Freudian interpretation of fairy tales, to the tellers of the tales, and to the social and cultural contexts in which the tales are told and re-told through the centuries, from the ancient sibyls to the 18th-century salonieres, and from Disney to Angela Carter.
language: English
title: FROM THE BEAST TO THE BLONDE On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers.
titlecomplete: FROM THE BEAST TO THE BLONDE On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers.
genres: History, Feminism, Writing, Mythology, Essays, Research, Folklore, Fairy Tales, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1410
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Mythopoeic Scholarship Award
category: Myth and Fantasy Studies, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Harvey Darton Award
publisher: Chatto and Windus