The Image of Faithful Frogs and Titillated Toads: The Human and Animal Hierarchy in Victorian Fairy Tale Adaptations

• Autores: Victoria Tedeschi
• Localización: Bookbird: world of children's books, ISSN 0006-7377, Vol. 53, Nº. 4, 2015, págs. 20-28
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In nineteenth-century England, Charles Darwin threatened humankind�s preconceived superiority by declaring that humans shared genetic information with animals. Cultural anxieties about evolution were made manifest in a variety of print culture, including the burgeoning field of children�s literature. H.B Paull�s English editions of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimms� �The Frog Prince� (1868) and Hans Christian Andersen�s �The Marsh King�s Daughter� (1895) present animal-human hybrids that are encouraged to perform a fixed human transformation. By reinforcing a schism between humans and animals, these widely read adaptations adhere to dominant contemporaneous values that deemed humanity as a unique and privileged entity.