{"product_id":"the-bronts-and-the-fairy-tale-9780821425640","title":"The Bront?s and the Fairy Tale","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Bront?s and the Fairy Tale\u003c\/i\u003e is the first comprehensive study devoted to the role of fairy tales and folklore in the work of Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell Bront?. It intervenes in debates on genre, literary realism, the history of the fairy tale, and the position of women in the Victorian period. Building on recent scholarship emphasizing the dynamic relationship between the fairy tale and other genres in the nineteenth century, the book resituates the Bront?s' engagement with fairy tales in the context of twenty-first-century assumptions that the stories primarily evoke childhood and happy endings. Jessica Campbell argues instead that fairy tales and folklore function across the Bront?s' works as plot and character models, commentaries on gender, and signifiers of national identity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Scholars have long characterized the fairy tale as a form with tremendous power to influence cultures and individuals. The late twentieth century saw important critical work revealing the sinister aspects of that power, particularly its negative effects on female readers. But such an approach can inadvertently reduce the history of the fairy tale to a linear development from the \"traditional\" tale (pure, straight, patriarchal, and didactic) to the \"postmodern\" tale (playful, sophisticated, feminist, and radical). Campbell joins other contemporary scholars in arguing that the fairy tale has always been a remarkably elastic form, allowing writers and storytellers of all types to reshape it according to their purposes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Bront?s are most famous today for \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWuthering Heights, \u003c\/i\u003e haunting novels that clearly repurpose fairy tales and folklore. Campbell's book, however, reveals similar repurposing throughout the entire Bront? oeuvre. \u003ci\u003eThe Bront?s and the Fairy Tale\u003c\/i\u003e is recursive: in demonstrating the ubiquity and multiplicity of uses of fairy tales in the works of the Bront?s, Campbell enhances not only our understanding of the Bront?s' works but also the status of fairy tales in the Victorian period.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessica Campbell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/12\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Victorian Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821425640","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43273937027209,"sku":"9780821425640","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_4e237acb-ffe3-4b49-9c49-a33d5a6a15dc.jpg?v=1736842533","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-bronts-and-the-fairy-tale-9780821425640","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}