Literary Criticism, Children's Literature

Fairy Tales: A New History

Name: Fairy Tales: A New History
Author: Ruth B. Bottigheimer
ISBN: 9781438425238

by Ruth B. Bottigheimer

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Synopsis

Overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents their actual origins and transmission.

About the Author, Ruth B. Bottigheimer

Ruth B. Bottigheimer teaches European fairy tales and British children's literature at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. She is the coeditor (with Leela Prasad and Lalita Handoo) of Gender and Story in South India, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of several books, including Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition.