The first systematic approach to the parallels between fairy-tale retellings and fairy-tale theory.

This book draws on original material and approaches from the developing fields of the history of emotions and childhood studies and brings together scholars from history, literature and cultural studies, to reappraise how the early modern world reacted to the deaths of children. Child death was the great equaliser of

In Fairy Tales in Contemporary American Culture: How We Hate to Love Them, Kate Koppy shows that fairy tales have become a key part of the American secular scripture by analyzing contemporary fairy tale texts as both new versions in a particular tale type and as wholly new fairy-tale pastiches.

At the same time that 1970s feminist psychoanalytic theorists like Jean Baker Miller and Nancy Chodorow were challenging earlier models that assumed the masculine psyche as the norm for human development and mental/emotional health, writers such as Anne Sexton, Olga Broumass, and Angela Carter were embarked on their own revisionist

A systematic study of various factors in the international reception of Grimms' fairy tales.