Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. PREFACE xv
4. I- Rewritten by Adults: The Inscription of Children's Literature 1
5. II- "Teaching Them a Lesson": The Pedagogy of Fear in Fairy Tales 22
6. III- Just Desserts: Reward-and-Punishment Tales 51
7. IV- Wilhelm Grimm / Maurice Sendak: Dear Mili and the Art of Dying Happily Ever After 70
8. V- Daughters of Eve: Fairy-Tale Heroines and Their Seven Sins 94
9. VI- Tyranny at Home: "Catskin" and "Cinderella" 120
10. VII- Beauties and Beasts: From Blind Obedience to Love at First Sight 140
11. VIII- "As Sweet as Love": Violence and the Fulfillment of Wishes 163
12. IX- Table Matters: Cannibalism and Oral Greed 190
13. X- Telling Differences: Parents vs. Children in "The Juniper Tree" 212
14. Epilogue: Reinvention through Intervention 229
15. NOTES 239
16. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 273
17. INDEX 289