Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood

ISBN: 9780691000886

出版社: Princeton University Press

出版年: 1993-10-04

页数: 328

定价: USD 30.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

When fairy tales moved from workrooms, taverns, and the fireside into the nursery, they not only lost much of their irreverent, earthy humor but were also deprived of their contestatory stance to official culture. Children's literature, Maria Tatar maintains, has always been more intent on producing docile minds than playful bodies. From its inception, it has openly endorsed a productive discipline that condemns idleness and disobedience along with most forms of social resistance.