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Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale Page 18


  ‘Red Riding Hood’ xxiv, 114, 115 , 116

  ‘Sleeping Beauty’ 25, 53, 133, 134 , 137–8, 174, 176

  Peters, Clinton 35

  Pitré, Giuseppe 66

  Plato 53

  poetical animals 30

  poison 15, 21, 25, 88

  political correctness 172

  political sensitivity 169–70, 173

  politics 146, 153, 156, 170–3

  polygamy 78

  Prokofiev, Sergei 162

  promises 31, 40

  prophecy 30, 41

  Propp, Vladimir xx, 61

  psychoanalysis 113–16, 130 Bettelheim 121–5

  Freud 117–21

  Jung 125

  Pullman, Philip 63, 64, 95, 116, 157

  Puttenham, George 7

  Rackham, Arthur 22 , 101, 104

  Rais, Gilles de 85–7, 91–2

  rape 80, 133

  rationality 146, 154, 156–7

  Ravel, Maurice 169

  re-visionings xiv, xv, 17, 63, 136, 148

  realism 73, 74–81, 84–5, 91, 95–6

  reason 98, 147–8

  Red Riding Hood 26, 114–16, 122, 125

  Rego, Paula 58 , 110

  Reiniger, Lotte 34, 104, 167–8 , 169, 170

  religion 2, 7, 151

  Rich, Adrienne 136

  riddles 41, 42, 118

  Romanticism 8–11, 23–4, 54, 63, 65, 68, 98, 103

  Rossetti, Christina 4, 12–14, 94

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 98, 101

  Rowling, J. K. 17, 95, 177

  Runge, Phillip Otto 23

  Rushdie, Salman xiv, 151

  Ruskin, John 5, 94–5

  Russia xiv, xx, 61, 67, 69

  Sade, Marquis de 141

  sadism 92, 141

  sado-masochism 94

  Sander, Eckhard 87–8

  Sandman, the 119–20, 164

  Scandinavia xiv, xx, 69

  Scotland xiv, 7, 11, 67–8

  Scott, Walter xiv, 11–12

  second sight 7–8

  self-censorship 172–3

  Sendak, Maurice 8

  sex education 135–6

  Sexton, Anne 137–8

  Shaftesbury, Lord 102

  Shakespeare, William 4, 5–7, 9 , 42, 88, 149

  shape-shifters 6, 34

  Shaw, George Bernard 85

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe 9

  sisters 13, 26–7, 37, 58, 118, 133

  Sleeping Beauty 25, 133, 134 , 137, 174, 176

  Smith, Kiki 125

  Snow White 36, 87–8, 124, 137, 144, 174–6

  social reform 94–5

  song(s) 6, 55, 57, 64, 164, 167

  sons 27, 79, 118–19

  Soviet Union 170–1

  spells 30, 31, 36, 37, 40, 41

  Spenser, Edmund xviii

  splitting 123–4

  Spufford, Francis 70

  starvation 80

  Stephenson, Craig 129

  stepmother 24, 31, 33, 37, 51, 88, 123, 124, 133, 174–5

  stories 61–2

  storytelling 12, 43, 53–4, 94, 98, 138 as framing device 51–3

  variations 64–5 see also narrative

  Straparola, Giovanni Francesco 50–1, 53

  Stukeley, William 7

  Sumpter, Caroline 103

  symbolism xix, 24, 70, 113–14, 120, 122, 130

  Taglioni, Marie 158

  Tatar, Maria 80–1, 114, 179

  Taylor, Edgar 105

  television xvii, 159

  Tenniel, John 99

  theatre 159–65

  Thelwall, John 9

  Thomas of Erceldourne (Thomas the Rhymer) 10, 12

  Thousand and One Nights, Tales of the, see Arabian Nights

  ‘The Three Heads in the Well’ 42

  Tiffin, Jessica 154

  Todorov, Tzvetan 149–50

  Tolkien, J. R. R. xix, xxi, 2, 16, 179

  Toro, Guillermo del 176

  Tournier, Michel 81, 86

  translations 46–7

  transmission xvii, 72, 98, 159

  Ugrešić, Dubravka 157

  uncanny 23, 30, 112, 120

  Uncanny, The 119–21, 150, 164

  Undine 23–4, 160

  utopianism 94, 142, 153, 154

  Velay-Vallantin, Catherine 89–90

  Verdú, Maribel 174–5

  Victoria, Queen 158

  Viehmann, Dorothea 60

  Villeneuve, Mme de 39

  violence 79

  Voltaire 151, 156, 163

  Waldeck, Margarete von 87–8

  Wales xiv, 68

  Warnes, Chris 150

  Weber, Carl Maria von 160

  Weber, Eugen 80

  Wette, Adelheid 164

  wicked queen 24, 25, 30, 36, 88, 123, 148, 165

  Wilde, Oscar xiv

  Wilde, Speranza xiv, 14

  Williams, Margery 19

  Windling, Terri 166–7, 172

  Winterson, Jeanette 70–1, 77, 148

  witchcraft 86

  witches 24–5, 27, 133

  wolves 25–6

  wonder tales xxii

  Woolverton, Linda 142, 177

  words, magic of 40–3

  Wright, Minnie 68

  Wynne-Jones, Diana 104

  Yeats, W. B. xiv, 14

  Young Adult fiction 142

  Zipes, Jack 66, 81, 120, 138