{"product_id":"fairy-godfather-anglo-american-prophecy-in-the-age-of-revolution-9780812236804","title":"Fairy Godfather: Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution","description":"Fairy Godfather Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition Ruth B. Bottigheimer \"\u003ci\u003eFairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e makes the case that the fairy tale, far from rising from the ground as a rural folk tradition, was invented by a city-bound sixteenth-century Italian literary hack, Zoan Francesco Straparola.\"--Adam Gopnik, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \"A vivid and compelling picture of life in Venice and the Veneto in the sixteenth century.\"--Guido Ruggiero, Pennsylvania State University \"Thanks to the initiative and wide-ranging scholarly industry of Ruth Bottigheimer, teachers and students . . . now have available to them a highly readable, at times quite engrossing account of the little that is known, and whatever can be surmised, about the author who launched the genre that was to become the literary folk fairy tale.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Lion and the Unicorn\u003c\/i\u003e \"A masterly demonstration. . . . A substantial achievement.\"--\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e \"Well researched, gracefully written, and beautifully printed. Highly recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e In the classic rags-to-riches fairy tale a penniless heroine (or hero), with some magic help, marries a royal prince (or princess) and rises to wealth. Received opinion has long been that stories like these originated among peasants, who passed them along by word of mouth from one place to another over the course of centuries. In a bold departure from conventional fairy tale scholarship, Ruth B. Bottigheimer asserts that city life and a single individual played a central role in the creation and transmission of many of these familiar tales. According to her, a provincial boy, Zoan Francesco Straparola, went to Venice to seek his fortune and found it by inventing the modern fairy tale, including the long beloved Puss in Boots, and by selling its many versions to the hopeful inhabitants of that colorful and commercially bustling city. With innovative literary sleuthing, Bottigheimer has reconstructed the actual composition of Straparola's collection of tales. Grounding her work in social history of the Renaissance Venice, Bottigheimer has created a possible biography for Straparola, a man about whom hardly anything is known. This is the first book-length study of Straparola in any language. \u003cb\u003eRuth B. Bottigheimer\u003c\/b\u003e teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature, State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is the author also of \u003ci\u003eFairy Tales and Society: Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm\u003c\/i\u003e. 2002 176 pages 6 x 9 6 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-3680-4 Cloth $55.00s  36.00 ISBN 978-0-8122-0139-0 Ebook $55.00s  36.00 World Rights Literature, Cultural Studies Short copy: \"\u003ci\u003eFairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e makes the case that the fairy tale, far from rising from the ground as a rural folk tradition, was invented by a city-bound sixteenth-century Italian literary hack, Zoan Francesco Straparola.\"--Adam Gopnik, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ruth B. Bottigheimer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/14\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.82h x 6.80w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812236804\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/09\/2002 pg. 138\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRuth B. Bottigheimer teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature, State University of New York at Stony Brook. She is the author also of Fairy Tales and Society: Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43197341040755,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":104.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_1b0042d3-755a-4cc6-8d3d-af98a340bff1.jpg?v=1752665370","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/fairy-godfather-anglo-american-prophecy-in-the-age-of-revolution-9780812236804","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}