Fairy tales: a new history

Why a new history of fairy tales?

Two accounts of the Grimm's tales : the folk as creator, the book as source

The late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century layers : Perrault, Lhéritier, and their successors

The two inventors of fairy tale tradition : Giambattista Basile (1634-1636) and Giovan Francesco Straparola (1551, 1553)

A new history.