Fairy Tale Queens: Representations of Early Modern Queenship

by Jo Eldridge Carney

Book Overview

Most of today's familiar fairy tales come from the stories of Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen, but this innovative study encourages us to explore the marvelous tales of authors from the early modern period Giovanni Straparola, Giambattista Basile, Madame Marie-Catherine D'Aulnoy, and others whose works enrich and expand the canon. As author Jo Eldridge Carney shows, the queen is omnipresent in these stories, as much...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349444057
• ISBN13: 9781349444052
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"