| Contents |
Spells of enchantment: an overview of the history of fairy tales. -- The rise of the French fairy tale and the decline of France. -- The splendor of the Arabian nights. -- Once there were two brothers named Grimm. -- Hans Christian Andersen and the discourse of the dominated. -- The flowering of the fairy tale in Victorian England. -- Oscar Wild's tales of illumination. -- Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio as tragic-comic fairy tale. -- Frank Stockton, American pioneer of fairy tales. -- L. Frank Baum and the utopian spirit of OZ. -- Hermann Hesse's fairy tales and the pursuit of home. |
| Local note | Little-323814--305131025237W |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-221) and index. |
| LCCN | 98006764 |
| ISBN | 0415921503 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0415921511 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
