Reframing the Early French Fairy Tale: A Selected Bibliography

Abstract

This bibliography includes printed primary and secondary sources of journal articles, books, dissertations, and published conference proceedings related to French fairy tales. My goal for this project was twofold: to gather sources that best represent the research-both early and current-conducted on early French fairy tales to date, and to present them in a clear and useful manner. In proposing this bibliography, I was mainly concerned with its helpfulness in directing the reader toward bodies of work likely to provide scholars, students, or anyone interested in fairy tales with an extensive overview of the scholarship already done in the field. Conceived for teaching and research, this bibliography refers mainly to sources published in French and English and a few written in German and Italian. Therefore, it is by no means exhaustive, and it does not include book reviews, commentaries, abstracts, or electronic sources. Given this special issues focus on the early French fairy tale, the list of entries includes primarily works pertinent to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Later French fairy tales and those from francophone African countries and Arcadian origins, for example, are not included in this project. The bibliography is divided into three main parts: primary sources, secondary sources, and forthcoming articles and books. The list of primary sources is based on the format established by Raymonde Robert in her book contes de fees litteraires en France de la fin du XVIIe a la fin du XVIIe siecle (Table 1: fairy tales published between 1690 and 1778, pp. 22-30). Most of the secondary sources were published between 1900 and 2004. Each of the first two parts is composed of subcategories classified in alphabetical order by author name and/or subject. Multiple publications by an author are listed in reverse chronological order, from the most recent to the oldest. As for the secondary sources, the grouping is subjective, as most items refer to several different categories at once. However, I acknowledged those repeated entries using an index system: each entry is assigned a number within each category indexed with a letter. Repeated items, then, have both a letter and a number to lead the reader directly to the complete bibliographical information. The section on forthcoming books and articles is as complete as possible but not comprehensive. Clearly, the scholarship on fairy tales reflects the dynamic nature of the field in that many studies and theories are currently being examined. A. PRIMARY SOURCES I. Anonymous L'amour-magot. London: Aux depens de la Compagnie, 1738. Conte a dormir debout. Cornu: Jendors le Petit, 1746. Cornichon et Toupette. Haye: R de Hondt, 1752. Deux contes de cette annee. Amsterdam: Desbordes, 1700. (LHomme des bois et Binkbmet, La Gageure des fees) Florine ou la belle italienne. Nouveau cabinet des fees. Ed. Jacques Barchilon. Vol. 8. Geneva: Slatkme, 1978. 239-342. Gaudriole. Haye: J. Beauregard, 1746. Prince franc-macon et la princesse Zelbine. Haye, 1748. Nouveau recueil de contes de fees. Paris: R J. Mariette, 1731. (La petite grenouille verte, Les perroquets, navire volant, Prince Perinet ou Lorigine des pagodes, Incarnat, blanc, et noir, buisson d'epines fleuries, Alphinge ou Le singe vert, Kadour, medecin de satin, Prince Arcen-ciel) II. Comtesse Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville d'AULNOY (1650-1705) Contes. Ed. Philippe Hourcade. 2 vols. Paris: Societe des Textes Francais Modernes, 1997-98. Nouveau cabinet des fees. Ed. Jacques Barchilon. Vols. 3-5. Geneva: Slatkine, 1978. III. Comtesse Louise de Bossigny D'AUNEUIL (1670-1730) chevaliers errans et le genie familier. Amsterdam: S. Bernardon, 1710. Nouveau cabinet des fees. Ed. Jacques Barchilon. Vol. 6. Geneva: Slatkine, 1978. …