01911nam a2200325 i 4500 498285 InACL 20260927140206.0 260927s2000 xxk 0 eng d 9780140447323 0140447326 InACL eng rda InACL 833.608 TUL 23 Tully, Carol Lisa author Romantic fairy tales / Carol Lisa Tully London : Penguin Books, 2000 158 pages text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "Deeply affected by the turmoil of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era, many of the great German Romantics adopted the Kunstmarchen or 'literary fairy tale' to express their fascination with mystery, medievalism and the darker side of human nature." "Although he was a committed Classicist, Goethe helped establish the genre in his richly imaginative Fairy Tale (1795). Ludwig Tieck's Eckbert the Fair (1797) depicts a pair of outsiders who have sought refuge from the world in the solitude of dark woods and in scandalous incestuous passion, while Friedrich de la Motte Fouque's Undine (1811) is a water nymph who falls in love, acquires a soul and so discovers the reality of human suffering. In Clemens Brentano's Tale of Honest Casper and Fair Annie (1817), a young couple is engulfed by tragedy due to a false sense of honour and pride, which has been-passed down to them through the genera Fairy tales -- Germany. Short stories, German -- Translations into English. German fiction -- 18th century -- Translations into English. German fiction -- 19th century -- Translations into English. German fiction German Short stories Translations into English Fairy tales 633119 633119 0 0 0 0 ACL ACL GEN 2026-09-27 0 833.608 TUL 498285 2026-09-27 14:02:06 2026-09-27 BK