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When fairy tales moved from workrooms, taverns, and the fireside into the nursery, they not only lost much of their irreverent, earthy humor but were also deprived of their contestatory stance to official culture. Children's literature, Maria Tatar maintains, has always been more intent on producing docile minds than playful bodies. From its inception, it has openly endorsed a productive discipline that condemns idleness and disobedience along with most forms of social resistance.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge

• Full title: Off with Their Heads!
• Subtitle: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood
• Author: Maria Tatar
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 332
• EAN: 9780691000886
• ISBN: 0691000883
• ID: 04639074
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 506 g
• Dimensions: 154 × 230 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. October 1993

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