Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Teller's Tale: Lives of the Classic Fairy Tale Writers; The Teller's Tale: Lives of the Classic Fairy Tale Writers; Contents; Introduction; Part I: Emergence: Straparola: Sixteenth-Century Italy, Basile: Seventeenth-Century Italy; Europe's First Fairy Tales; Giovan Francesco Straparola: 1485?-1556?; Giambattista Basile: 1575?-1632; Part II: Elaboration: Perrault and the Conteuses Précieuses Seventeenth-Century France; Sophistication and Modernization of the Fairy Tale: 1690-1709; Charles Perrault: 1628-1703; Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy: 1650/51?-1705.
  • Catherine Bernard: 1663?-1712Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier de Villandon :1664-1734; Henriette-Julie de Castelnau, Countess de Murat: 1668?-1716; Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force: 1650?-1724; Part III: Exoticism Galland Eighteenth-Century France; Antoine Galland: 1646-1715; Part IV: Didacticism Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont Eighteenth-Century France; Jeanne-Marie Leprince (or Le Prince) de Beaumont: 1711-1780?; Part V: Traditionalization: Naubert: Late Eighteenth-Century and Early Nineteenth-Century Germany, The Grimms: Nineteenth-Century Germany, Bechstein: Nineteenth-Century Germany.
  • The Legacy of the Eighteenth-Century and Nineteenth-Century German Female StorytellersBenedikte Naubert; Jacob Grimm 1785-1863 Wilhelm Grimm: 1786-1859; Ludwig Bechstein; Part VI: Sentimentalization: Andersen Nineteenth-Century Denmark; Hans Christian Andersen; List of Contributors; Index.