Title: The teller's tale : lives of the classic fairy tale writers /
Authors: Raynard, Sophie.
Publisher: State University of New York Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Fairy tales History and criticism; Authors Biography; Children's literature, European History and criticism.; Fairy tales Authorship.
Abstract: "This book offers new, often unexpected, but always intriguing portraits of the writers of classic fairy tales. For years these authors, who wrote from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, have been either little known or known through skewed, frequently sentimentalized biographical information. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were cast as exemplars of national virtues; Hans Christian Andersen's life became--with his participation--a fairy tale in itself. Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, the prim governess who wrote moral tales for girls, had a more colorful past than her readers would have imagined, and few people knew that nineteen-year-old Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy conspired to kill her much-older husband. Important figures about whom little is known, such as Giovan Francesco Straparola and Giambattista Basile, are rendered more completely than ever before. Uncovering what was obscured for years and with newly discovered evidence, contributors to this fascinating and much-needed volume provide a historical context for Europe's fairy tales."--p. [4] of cover.
Contents: Introduction / Sophie Raynard -- Europe's first fairy tales / Ruth B. Bottigheimer -- Giovan Francesco Straparola : 1485?-1556? / Ruth B. Bottigheimer -- Giambattista Basile : 1575?-1632 / Nancy Canepa -- Sophistication and modernization of the fairy tale : 1690-1709 / Nadine Jasmin (translated and adapted by Sophie Raynard) -- Charles Perrault : 1628-1703 / Yvette Saupé and Jean-Pierre Collinet (translated and adapted by Sophie Raynard) -- Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy : 1650/51?-1705 / Nadine Jasmin (translated and adapted by Sophie Raynard) -- Catherine Bernard : 1663?-1712 / Lewis C. Seifert -- Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier de Villandon : 1664-1734 / Lewis C. Seifert -- Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, Countess de Murat : 1668-1716 / Geneviève Patard (translated and adapted by Sophie Raynard) -- Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force : 1650?-1724 / Lewis C. Seifert -- Antoine Galland : 1646-1715 / Manuel Couvreur (translated and adapted by Sophie Raynard) -- Jeanne-Marie Leprince (or Le Prince) de Beaumont : 1711-1780? / Elisa Biancardi (translated and adapted by Sophie Raynard) -- The legacy of eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century German female storytellers / Shawn C. Jarvis -- Benedikte Naubert / Shawn C. Jarvis -- Jacob Grimm : 1785-1863, Wilhelm Grimm : 1786-1859 / Donald R. Hettinga -- Ludwig Bechstein / Ruth B. Bottigheimer -- Hans Christian Andersen / Peer E. Soerensen.