Read a facsimile published by Internet Archive
Arthur Rackham, Illustrations to the 1909 "The Valiant Tailor" from Grimm Fairy Tales. Read an English translation of the final 1837 version of Grimm text by D. L. Ashliman. We will be considering the idea of violence and the grotesque in children's stories in the tales and in the illustrations. In this case, we will also be considering models of masculinity.
Walter Crane's picture book digitized by Internet Archive or by the Smithsonian
While discussing this fairy tale, we will look at how the ideas about good illustration, book design changed and how the aesthetics of the illustration were affected by the technology. At the same time, we will continue to unpack how the illustrations relate to the story as it is told and retold. Great Books Foundation has a version of this book that you can download and read.
Cinderella is a story that seems to be one of the most universal--told in cultures in the Americas, Asia, Europe, and may well have originated in Egypt. A short and digestible history of the story can be found in a commentary on a book by Marian Roalfe Cox, Cinderella; three hundred and forty-five variants of Cinderella, Catskin, and Cap o'Rushes, abstracted and tabulated, with a discussion of mediaeval analogues, and notes, written by and published by NPR (Mar. 13, 2015). A Girl, A Shoe, A Prince: The Endlessly Evolving Cinderella
