The Queen's Mirror: Fairy Tales by German Women, 1780-1900 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803261815)

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. These 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. 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).

Author: Jeannine Blackwell
ISBN-10: 0803261810
ISBN-13: 9780803261815
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2001
Pages: 388
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/01/2001 pg. 84
Choice 11/01/2001 pg. 515