Marvels & Tales Volume 17, Number 1, Spring 2003 (Considering the Kunstmärchen: The History and Development of Literary Fairy Tales)
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.
Considering the Kunstmärchen: The History and Development of Literary Fairy Tales
Guest editors Andrea Immel and Jan Susina
Table of Contents
Introduction: Literary Fairy Tales and the Value of Impurity
U. C. Knoepflmacher
“Entertainment for Little Ones”? Basile’s Lo cunto de li cunti and the Childhood of the Literary Fairy Tale
Nancy L. Canepa
The Poetics of Enchantment (1690–1715)
Christine Jones
Male Adolescence in German Fairy-Tale Novellas of the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Biedermeier
Hans-Heino Ewers
“A Fairytale Is Just a Fairytale”: George MacDonald and the Queering of Fairy
Roderick McGillis
“Like the fragments of coloured glass in a kaleidoscope”: Andrew Lang Mixes Up Richard Doyle’s In Fairyland
Jan Susina
Arthur Hughes, Walter Crane, and Maurice Sendak: The Picture as Literary Fairy Tale
George Bodmer
Fairy Tale and Fantasy: From Archaic to Postmodern
Maria Nikolajeva
Reviews
Critical Exchanges
Contributors