Table of Contents
Introduction
PART I. THE MIDDLE AGES: FEUDALISM AND "LA SOCIéTé COURTOISE"
1. Melusine: "The Beauty of Things is Fleet and Swift"
PART II. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: "LE GRAND SIÈCLE"
2. Charles Perrault's Multi-Veined Donkey Skin, Sleeping Beauty, and Bluebeard
3. Mme d'Aulnoy's The Bluebird—Metamorphosis, an Unconscious Readjustment
PART III. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: "L'ESPRIT PHILOSOPHIQUE"
4. Denis Diderot's The White Bird—As Holy Ghost/Holy Spirit
5. Was Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Fantastic Queen Merely a Tongue-in-Cheek Fairy Tale?
PART IV. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: "LE ROMANTISME"—ESTHETIC AND UTILITARIAN
6. Charles Nodier's The Crumb Fairy—A Sacred Marriage of Sun and Moon
7. Théophile Gautier's Parapsychological Hetaera/Fairy: Arria Marcella
8. Countess Sophie De Ségur's Rosette—A Manichean Merry-Go-Round
9. George Sand's The Castle Of Crooked Peak—The Topography of Memory Manipulation
10. Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelléas and Mélisande—The Dying Complex
PART V. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: SLAUGHTER/SCIENCE/ SPIRITUALITY
11. Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast—"The Plucking of a Rose"
12. Andrée Chedid's The Suspended Heart—The Mystery of Being
CONCLUSION
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX