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

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

Maria Tatar

328 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology sociology adventurous informative slow-paced
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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 Tata...

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