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published for an adult readership, popular, in the age of Goethe and
Schiller, among the German Romantic poets. Charles Perrault's
spare and moralistic tales (such as Little Red Riding Hood who, in
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the original Perrault telling, gets eaten by the wolf in the end
having the Al sense to talk to strangers in the wood) was written
the court of Louis XIV; Madame d'Aulnoy (author of The White C
and Madame Leprince de Beaumont (author of Beauty and the Bea
also wrote for the French aristocracy. In England, fairy stories a
heroic legends were popularized through Malory's Arthur, Sha
speare's Puck and Ariel, Spenser's Faerie Queene.
With the Age of Enlightenment and the growing emphasis
rational and scientific modes of thought, along with the rise
fashion of novels of social realism in the nineteenth century, litera
fantasy went out of vogue and those stories of magic, enchantme
heroic quests, and courtly romance that form a cultural herita
thousands of years old, dating back to the oldest written epics a
further still to tales spoken around the hearth-fire, came to be se
as fit only for children, relegated to the nursery like, Profes!
Tolkien points out, "shabby or old fashioned furniture ... primaz
because the adults do not want it, and do not mind if it is misuse(
And misused the stories have been, in some cases altered
greatly to make them suitable for Victorian children that the origi:
tales were all but forgotten. Andrew Lang's Tam Lin, printed in I
colored Fairy Books series, tells the story of little Janet wh(
playmate is stolen away by the fairy folk-ignoring the origir
darker tale of seduction and human sacrifice to the Lord of Hell,
the heroine, pregnant with Tam Lin's child, battles the Fairy Qu(
for her lover's life. Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty bears only a li
resemblance to Straparola's Sleeping Beauty of the Wood, publishec
Venice in the sixteenth century, in which the enchanted princes
impregnated as she sleeps, waking to find herself the mother
twins. The Little Golden Book version of the Arabian Nights resi
bles not at all the violent and sensual tales actually recounted
Scheherazade in One Thousand and One Nights, shocking nineteex
century Europe when fully translated by Sir Richard Burton.
for the young and innocent . . ." said the Daily Mail.)
wealth of material from myth and folklore at the disposa
the story-teller (or modern fantasy novelist) has been described
giant cauldron of soup into which each generation throws new
of fancy and history, new imaginings, new ideas, to simmer al,
with the old. The story-teller is the cook who serves up the comr
gredients in his or her own,individual way, to suit the tastes
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