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THIS EXCITING and comprehensive anthology -- the first anthology of German women's fairy tales in English -- presents a variety of published and archival fairy tales from 1780 to 1900. The authors of these stories used fairy tales to explain their own lives, to teach children, to examine history, and to critique society and the status quo. Powerful and conflicted females are queens, girls on quests, mothers, daughters, magical wisewomen, and midwives to the fairies; they love, hate, murder, save children, fight tyranny, overcome cannibals, and rescue the working poor.Jeannine Blackwell's introduction places the tales in their historical, social, and critical context, and Shawn C. Jarvis's afterword presents a thematic analysis of the texts and approaches to reading them in conjunction with other European and American tales.
List of contents
Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Jeannine Blackwell"The Queen's Mirror: The Historical Context of German Women's Fairy Tales"Prologue: Gisela von Arnim: "The Ghost Lady"Catherine the Great: "The Fairy Tale of Fewei"Lulu Brentano Jordis: "The Lion and the Frog"[Benedikte Naubert]: Velleda, a Magic Novel[Sophie Tieck]: "The Old Man in the Cavern"anon.: "The Giant's Forest"Tian [ps. Caroline von Gunderrode]: "Temora"Bettina von Arnim: "The Queen's Son"Amalie von Helwig: "The Symbols"Anna von Haxthausen: "The Rescued Princess"Caroline Stahl: "The Godmothers"Amalie Schoppe: "The Diligent and Kind Housewife"Agnes Franz: "Princess Rosalieb, A Fairy Tale"Fanny Lewald: "A Modern Fairy Tale"[Louise Dittmar]: "Tale of the Monkeys"Sophie von Baudissin: "The Doll Institute"Gisela von Arnim: "The Nasty Little Pea"About the Hamster"Marie von Olfers: "Little Princess"Villamaria [ps. Marie Timme]: "The King's Child"Elisabeth Ebeling: "Black and White"Hedwig Dohm: "The Fragrance of Flowers"Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach: The Princess of BanaliaHenriette Kuhne-Harkort: "Snow White, Freely Adapted from the Grimms"Carmen Sylva [ps. Elizabeth, Queen of Rumania]: "Furnica, or The Queen of the Ants"Anon.: "The Red Flower"Ricarda Huch: "Pack of Lies"Epilogue: Gisela von Arnim: "Wedding Day"Afterword: Shawn C. Jarvis: "From the Cradle to the Grave: Some Thoughts on Reading these Tales"Permissions and CreditsList of AbbreviationsWorks CitedNotes
About the author
Shawn C. Jarvis is a professor of German and chair of Foreign Languages at St. Cloud State University. Jeannine Blackwell is a professor of German at the University of Kentucky, president of Women in German, and coeditor of Bitter Healing: German Women Writers, 1700-1830. An Anthology (Nebraska 1990).
Summary
An anthology of German women's fairy tales in English. It presents a variety of published and archival fairy tales from 1780 to 1900. It includes fairy tales to explain the authors' own lives, to teach children, to examine history, and to critique society and the status quo.
