Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. The Middle Ages Feudalism And “La Société Courtoise”
5. Melusine 23
6. The Seventeenth Century “Le Grand Siècle”
7. Charles Perrault’s Multi-Veined Donkey-Skin, Sleeping Beauty, and Bluebeard 65
8. MME d’Aulnoy’s The Bluebird 107
9. The Eighteenth Century
10. Denis Diderot’s The White Bird as Holy Ghost/Holy Spirit 137
11. Was Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Fantastic Queen Merely A Tongue-In-Cheek Fairy Tale? 157
12. The Nineteenth Century
13. Charles Nodier’s The Crumb Fairy—A Sacred Marriage of Sun and Moon 183
14. Theophile Gautier’s Parapsychological Hetaera/Fairy 203
15. Countess Sophie de Segur’s Rosette 225
16. George Sand’s The Castle of Crooked Peak 245
17. Maurice Maeterlinck’s pelleas and Melisande 283
18. The Twentieth-Century Slaughter/Science/Spirituality
19. Jean Cocteau’S Beauty and The Beast 307
20. Andree Chedid’s The Suspended Heart 335
21. Conclusion 357
22. Notes 361
23. References 367
24. Index 381