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English Fairy Tales and More English Fairy Tales
2002The first compilation of the full first-edition texts of the classic fairy tale collections by Joseph Jacobs, with Jacobs' original prefaces and annotations. In these two classic collections, first published in 1890 and 1894, Joseph Jacobs combined folklore, children's literature, and the eclectic scholarship of the Victorian era to create a ...
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2001
Fairy tales, as we have come to recognise them, are literary appropriations of oral folk tales, traditionally believed to be collected from peasant women. Women told them amongst themselves while spinning, carding, or collectively performing other monotonous tasks. These tales were also recounted to their children and to the children of the aristocracy
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Fairy tales, as we have come to recognise them, are literary appropriations of oral folk tales, traditionally believed to be collected from peasant women. Women told them amongst themselves while spinning, carding, or collectively performing other monotonous tasks. These tales were also recounted to their children and to the children of the aristocracy
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Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale
Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 1987openaire +1 more source
Abstract The first section of this chapter situates the short stories in Wilde’s The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) and The House of Pomegranates (1891) within the commercial market for fairy tales in both magazines and books. It explores the thorny questions of Wilde’s relationships to convention, subversion, and audience.
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