1st Edition
Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume II: Fairy- Tale Revival Dramas: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Revivals, 1850–1950
Volume two explores the way a wide range of classic princess tales written by marginalized writers. Rapunzel and Snow White, with their pale skin or long ropes of golden hair, are particularly popular vehicles for exploring and challenging racialized constructions of beauty. Marriage is the traditional vehicle of a happy ending in Princess tales, so marginalized responses to these tales also inherently respond to the doubly colonized position of women in the Anglophone world. The institution of marriage typically exposes the institutional oppression of colonized women. Authors include Charles Chesnutt, Jessie Fauset, Julia Kavanaugh, George Edwards, some of the unpublished manuscripts of Jewish-Australian author Joseph Jacobs, and the earliest work of Sinèad de Valera, as well as fin-de-siècle illustrators such as Harry Clarke, and collected oral tales.
Volume 2. Fairy Tale Revival Dramas
General Introduction
Bibliography
Volume 2 Introduction
Part 1. Bluebeard Dramas
- F. E. E. O. Bell, Bluebeard, Fairy Tale Plays and How to Act Them (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896).
- The Rt Hon Dr L. Bennett-Coverley and N. Vaz, Bluebeard and Brer Anancy, MS National Library of Jamaica (NLJ), 1944.
- J. M. Barrie, A Kiss for Cinderella: A Comedy (London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd, 1916).
- E. Williams, Cinderella, typescript, Emlyn William Papers, National Library of Wales (NLW), 1924.
- L. Hughes, ‘The Gold Piece: A Play That Might Be True’, The Brownies’ Book Magazine, 2:7 (1921), pp. 191-4.
- Battey, ‘Cover Picture’, photograph, The Brownies’ Book Magazine, 1:1 (January 1920).
- ‘Celebrating Baby Week at Tuskegee’, photograph, The Brownies’ Book Magazine, 1:1 (January 1920), pp. 16-7.
- S. Morrison, ‘Cushag’, Eunys, or The Dalby Maid (Prospect Hill, Douglas, Isle of Mann: G&L Johnson, 1908).
- M. H. Noël-Paton, The Hidden People: A Play Based on the Ballads of Tam Lin and Thomas the Rhymer (London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1933).
Part 2. Cinderella Dramas
Part 3. Wonder Tales and Fairy Lore Dramas
Appendices
Appendix A: E. C., ‘Two Jamaicans Write and Produce a Pantomime’, The West Indies Review, December 1949, p. 12.
Appendix B: ‘A Kiss for Cinderella’, Evening Express, 6 October 1916, p.2.
Appendix C: ‘A Kiss for Cinderella’, The Bournemouth Graphic, 1 September 1916, p. 4.
Index
Biography
Dr. Abigail Heiniger, Assistant Professor of Literature and Languages and Department Chair, teaches
literature and writing at Lincoln Memorial University, USA
