Marvels & Tales Volume 26, Number 2, Fall 2012

Marvels & Tales is a peer-reviewed journal that is international and multidisciplinary in orientation. The journal publishes scholarly work dealing with the fairy tale in any of its diverse manifestations and contexts. Marvels & Tales provides a central forum for fairy-tale studies by scholars of literature, folklore, gender studies, children’s literature, social and cultural history, anthropology, film studies, ethnic studies, art and music history, and others.

Table of Contents

Fairy Gold: The Economics and Erotics of Fairy-Tale Pantomime
Jennifer Schacker

"You Must Kill Her": The Fact and Fantasy of Filicide in "Snow White"
Michelle Ann Abate

Glass Beauty: Coffins and Corpses in A. S. Byatt's Possession
Carina Hart

Aimee Bender's Fiction and the Intertextual Ingestion of Fairy Tales
Jo Carney

Tough Magical Nuts to Crack: Cristina Campo's Reflections on Fairy Tales
Cristina Mazzoni

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