When Dreams Came True Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition [Hardcover]

For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight and haunt us from cradle to grave. But how have these stories become so powerful and why?

In When Dreams Came True, Jack Zipes explains the social life of the fairy tale, from the sixteenth century on into the twenty-first. Whether exploring Charles Perrault or the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen or The Thousand and One Nights, The Happy Princeor Pinocchio, L. Frank Baum or Hermann Hesse, Zipes shows how the authors of our beloved fairy tales used the genre to articulate personal desires, political views, and aesthetic preferences within particular social contexts. Above all, he demonstrates the role that the fairy tale has assumed in the civilizing processthe way it imparts values, norms, and aesthetic taste to children and adults.

This second edition of one of Jack Zipess best-loved books includes a new preface and two new chapters on J.M. Barries Peter Panand E.T.A. Hoffmans The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.

Preface to the 2007 edition  Preface to the 1999 Edition  1. Spells of Enchantment: An Overview of the History of Fairy Tales  2. The Rise of the French Fairy Tale and the Decline of France  3. The Splendor of the Arabian Nights  4. Once There Were Two Brothers Named Grimm  5. The Merry Dance of the Nutcracker: Discovering the World Through Fairy Tales  6. I'm Hans Christian Andersen  7. The Flowering of the Fairy Tale in Victorian England  8. Oscar Wilde's Tales of Illumination  9. Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio as Tragi-Comic Fairy Tale  10. Frank Stockton, American Pioneer of Fairy Tales  11. L. Frank Baum and thelÃL