Although readers and filmgoers are strongly familiar with Disney's sanitized child-centric fairy tales, they are quick to catch on to reworkings of classic tales into a contemporary context. The rise is such retellings seems to indicate that readers are hungry for a new narrative, one that hearkens back to the old yet moves the storyline forward to reflect conditions of the modern world.

No mere escapist fantasies, the reimagined fairy tales of the late 20th and early 21st centuries reflect social, political and cultural truths. Sixteen essays consider fairy tales recreated through short stories, novels, poetry, and the graphic novel from both best-selling and lesser-known writers, applying a variety of perspectives, including postmodernism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, queer theory and gender studies. Along with the classic fairy tales, fiction from writers such as Neil Gaiman (Stardust) and Gregory Macquire (Wicked) is covered.

About the Author
Susan Redington Bobby is an associate professor of English at Wesley College. She is the editor of Fairy Tales Reimagined: Essays on New Retellings (McFarland, 2009), the author of Beyond His Dark Materials: Innocence and Experience in the Fiction of Philip Pullman (McFarland 2012), and the author of a critical essay in the His Dark Materials Casebook (Palgrave 2014).

Reviews
"a brilliant collection of essays.... These essays urge you to go reread every fairy tale you have ever read, then to go read the new renditions, and then see them all in an entirely new light.... It is easy to lose yourself in these essays"-Mythlore; "this is the type of book students are always seeking when they are researching their own papers...helps to fill the large gap...most impressed with the wide range of topics...strong scholarship"-surlalunefairytales.blogspot.com; "interesting insights and intriguing readings of fairy-tale authors old and new"-Journal of Folklore Research; "about fairy tales as elements in contemporary fiction...perfectly lucid and informative"-Critical Mass.



Book Information
ISBN 9780786441150
Author Susan Redington Bobby
Format Paperback
Page Count 270
Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc
Weight(grams) 354g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm