Fairy Tale Queens [electronic resource] : Representations of Early Modern Queenship / by J. Carney.

Carney, J.
Fairy Tale Queens
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781137269690 978-1-137-26969-0
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/4370
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2012.
Yayın Bilgisi
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XIV, 238 p. online resource.
Dizi
Queenship and Power, 2730-9398
Özet, vb.
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 a hallmark of the genre as other familiar characteristics such as the number three, magical objects, and happy endings. That queens occupy such space in early modern tales is not surprising given the profound influence of so many powerful queens in the political landscapes of early modern England and Europe. Carney makes a powerful argument for the historical relevance of fairy tales and, by exploring the dynamic intersection between fictional and actual queens, shows how history and folk literature mutually enrich our understanding of the period.
Konu
History, Modern.
Great Britain __ History.
Social history.
Europe __ History.
Europe __ History __ 1492-.
European literature.
Modern History.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Social History.
European History.
History of Early Modern Europe.
European Literature.