TY - BOOK AU - Samadzadeh, Mehrdad F. TI - European Fairy Tales From the Renaissance to the Late Victorian Era: the child of the fairy tale SN - 9781433170980 U1 - 398.2094 PY - 2020/// CY - New York : PB - Peterlang Pub. KW - 19th & 20th Century KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY KW - Children in literature N1 - Criticism, interpretation, etc; Includes bibliographical references and index; List of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Preface. Introduction. The Child as a Historical Subject From Folk Tales to Fairy Tales. The Changing Character of Fairy Tales from Straparola to Perrault. The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm and the Political Socialization of Children in the Age of Nationalism -The Escape from Innocence: Contradictions of Modern N2 - This book explores the interplay of childhood and the fairy tale as they both changed character in accordance with the historical transformations of the mid-nineteenth century. While the fairy tale was instrumental in the social construction of childhood, the latter for its part played an equally crucial role in altering the narrative structure of the fairy tale ER -