The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
Maria Tatar • Princeton University Press • ISBN-13 978‑0691182995
The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
Maria Tatar • Princeton University Press
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ISBN-10: 069118299X · ISBN-13: 978‑0691182995 · 1987 · Expanded Edition
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Maria Tatar provides a rigorous examination of the original, often brutal, versions of the Brothers Grimm tales, stripping away the sanitized layers added by later Victorian editors. By situating these narratives within the socio-economic realities of nineteenth-century Germany, the text reveals how domestic violence, abandonment, and class struggle shaped the foundational archetypes of Western folklore.
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