The Grimm brothers' fairy tales have long fascinated readers with their violence and frank sexuality. Three of Britain's most important novelists, Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble, and A. S. Byatt, have shared this fascination. Their fiction explores the darker themes of fairy tales - bestiality, cannibalism, and incest - and finds within them reasons to be optimistic about our fractured modern world.
| ISBN: | 9780820472539 |
| Publication date: | 11th October 2004 |
| Author: | Lisa M Fiander |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Series: | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature |
| Genres: |
Literary theory Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Cultural studies |