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Gretchen Schultz & Lewis Seifert 
Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned 
Enchanted Stories from the French Decadent Tradition

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A new collection of subversive French fairy tales
The wolf is tricked by Red Riding Hood into strangling her grandmother and is subsequently arrested. Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella do not live happily ever after. And the fairies are saucy, angry, and capricious. Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned collects thirty-six tales, many newly translated, by writers associated with the decadent literary movement, which flourished in France in the late nineteenth century. Written by such creative luminaries as Charles Baudelaire, Anatole France, and Guillaume Apollinaire, these enchanting yet troubling stories reflect the concerns and fascinations of a time of great political, social, and cultural change. Recasting well-known favorites from classic French fairy tales, as well as Arthurian legends and English and German tales, the updated interpretations in this collection allow for more perverse settings and disillusioned perspectives—a trademark style and ethos of the decadent tradition.
In these stories, characters puncture the optimism of the naive, talismans don’t work, and the most deserving don’t always get the best rewards. The fairies are commonly victims of modern cynicism and technological advancement, but just as often are dangerous creatures corrupted by contemporary society. The collection underlines such decadent themes as the decline of civilization, the degeneration of magic and the unreal, gender confusion, and the incursion of the industrial. The volume editors provide an informative introduction, biographical notes for each author, and explanatory notes throughout.
Subverting the conventions of the traditional fairy tale, these old tales made new will entertain and startle even the most disenchanted readers.

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About the author

Gretchen Schultz is professor of French studies at Brown University. Her recent books include
Sapphic Fathers: Discourses of Same-Sex Desire from Nineteenth-Century France and
An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Poetry from France.
Lewis Seifert is professor of French studies at Brown University. He is the author of
Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690–1715 and
Manning the Margins: Masculinity and Writing in Seventeenth-Century France.
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 296 ● ISBN 9781400883455 ● File size 2.0 MB ● Editor Gretchen Schultz & Lewis Seifert ● Publisher Princeton University Press ● City Princeton ● Country US ● Published 2016 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4979587 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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