Clever Maids : : the Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales
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The Women Behind the Brothers Grimm
submitted by sdunav on August 26, 2011, 4:41pm
This is a moderately interesting historical work on the brothers Grimm - and the women (female family friends & acquaintances) who collected or told them the stories they heard from nursemaids, housekeepers, and mothers.
It includes some interesting history on the Napoleonic Wars, the German empire, and just how powerless women were there in the late 1700's-early 1800's. Paradiz draws some rather heavy handed but convincing parallels between the voiceless female collaborators and the powerless women & girls in several of the Grimm's fairy tales. The stories really shouldn't be called Grimm's fairy tales so much as the Wild sisters', the Haxthausen girls', and the Hassenpflugg Tales!
PUBLISHED
New York : Basic, 2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: 256 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0738209171 (hbk.) :
SUBJECTS
Grimm, Jacob, -- 1785-1863 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Grimm, Wilhelm, -- 1786-1859 -- Criticism and interpretation.