Beauty and the Beast

Recommended Reading

INTRODUCTION

Altman, Anna E. and Gail de Vos. Ch 1 Beauty and the Beast pp1-50 in Tales, Then and Now: More
Folktales As Literary Fictions for Young Adults.

Anderson, Amanda L. The Scripts that Tame Us: “Beauty and the Beast” As Vehicle of Cultural
Construction and Deconstruction
http://www.fallenprincesses.com/flash/essays/anderson_amanda_formatted_dissertation_fall_2013_fo
r_dg.pdf

Griswold, Jerry. The Meanings of Beauty and the Beast: A Handbook including “Among the Critics”
which is also in pp 209- 306 in French Fairy Tales edited by Denise Delcourt

Swain, Virginia “Beauty and the Beast” pp 104-108 in The Greenwood Encylopedia of Folktales & Fairy
Tales

Tatar, Maria The Annotated Fairy Tales Ch 4 pp58-78

TYPOLOGY

Ashliman, D. L. A Guide to Folktales in the English Language.425C

Uther, Hans-Jorg. The Types of International Folktales: A Classification and Bibliography, Based on the
System of Antti Aarne and Stith Thompson.

but see also

425A Animal Bridegroom

425 Search for the Lost Husband

Jones, Steven Swann The Fairy Tale: The Magic Mirror of Imagination “The Search for the Lost
Husband” pp 75-90

Leavy, Barbara Fass. In Search of the Swan Maiden

See also Bluebeard and The Frog Prince

HISTORY

Mythic antecedents

The relationship between Bhima and Hidimbi in the Mahabharata

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidimbi#Bhima_marries_Hidimbi

Psyche and Cupid

Anderson, Graham Fairytale and the Ancient World Ch 4 “ Cupid and Psyche and Beauty and
the Beast” pp 61-71

Persephone and Hades and other Classical myths http://tolovaj.hubpages.com/hub/Beauty-and-the-

Beast-as-retelling-of-old-myths

Literary

* Hearne, Betsy Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale

Bisbee, Mary The Evolution of “Beauty and the Beast”

https://digitalrepository.wheatoncollege.edu/bitstream/handle/11040/23788/Bisbee%20Thesis%20Fina
l.pdf?sequence=1

Opie, Iona & Peter The Classic Fairy Tales “Beauty and the Beast” pp179-195

Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales pp 45-49

Sawyer, Sarah “Beauty and the Beast: Origins and Variants” 30 August 2010
http://www.sarahsawyer.com/2010/08/beauty-and-the-beast-origins-and-variants-part-one-of-four/

Windling, Terri “Beauty and the Beast, Old And New ” Journal of Mythic Arts http://www.endicott-
studio.com/articleslist/beauty-and-the-beast-old-and-new-by-terri-windling.html

Zipes, Jack The Great Fairy Tale Tradition from Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm
“The Beast as Bridegroom” pp787 - 820

VARIANTS

*Heiner, Heidi Anne (ed) Beauty and the Beast: Tales from Around the World

Basile, Giambattista. The Tale of Tales

Lang, Andrew, ed. "Beauty and the Beast" in The Blue Fairy Book
Lang, Andrew, ed. "East of the Sun, West of the Moon” in The Blue Fairy Book

Tatar, Maria(ed) The Classic Fairy Tales pp 25-73

Zipes, Jack Ch 7 “The Beast as Bridegroom ATU 425- The Search for the Lost Husband and 425A-
The Animal as Bridegroom” pp204-255 in The Golden Age of Folk & Fairy Tales

LITERARY REFERENCES

Jane Eyre/ Bronte

Dombey and Son/ Dickens

Rebecca/du Maurier

Hunchback of Notre Dame/ Hugo

Turn of the Screw/James

Metamorphosis/Kafka

Phantom of the Opera/Leroux

Twilight/Meyer

Cyrano de Bergerac/Rostand

Taming of the Shrew/Shakespeare

Literary orphans: Heidi, Anne of Green Gable, Pollyanna, The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy

RETELLINGS: literary

*Carter, Angela “The Courtship of Mr Lyon” and “The Tiger’s Bride” in The Bloody Chamber and
Other Stories

Donoghue, Emma “The Tale of the Rose” in Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins

Forsyth, Kate The Beast’s Garden (Australian author)

McKinley, Robyn Beauty

McKinley, Robyn Rose Daughter

McKinley, Robyn Sunshine

Juliet Marillier Heart's Blood (Australian author)

Napoli, Donna Jo Beast

Wilkinson, Lisa Scatterheart

Wharton, Edith “Bunner Sisters” analysed in http://jsse.revues.org/1250

RETELLINGS: screen

Film: *Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bete (1946)

6 Other “Beauty And the Beast” Movie and TV Adaptations https://www.phactual.com/6-other-beauty-

and-the-beast-movie-and-tv-adaptations/

A Song of Ice and Fire https://pawntoplayer.wordpress.com/rethink-2/beauty-and-the-beast-project/

Movies http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/01/beyond-belle-8-beauty-and-the-
beast-relationships-in-movies/251162/#slide1

Other old films: King Kong, The Enchanted Cottage, African Queen, The Sound of Music, The
Desert Song/The Sheik,

TV couples http://www.silverpetticoatreview.com/2015/06/03/16-tv-couples-influenced-by-the-beauty-
and-the-beast-fairy-tale/

FEMINIST

*Bacchilega, Cristina Postmodern Fairy Tales: Gender and Narrative Strategies Ch 4 “IN the Eye of the
Beholder: Where is Beast? “ p71-102

Gould, Joan Spinning Straw into Gold: what fairy tales reveal about the transformations in a
woman’s life

Ch 8 Beauties and Beasts: Borne on the Back of Desire;

Ch 9 Beauties and Beasts: Descending into the Body;

Ch 10 Beauties and Beasts: Looking Love in the Face

Haynes, Karla Allison The beast's wife: Sexuality, gender and the other in twentieth- and twenty-first-
century versions of "Beauty and the Beast" http://gradworks.umi.com/14/53/1453522.html;
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=fUZgqEzo9oAC&pg=PP1&lpg=PP1&dq=Haynes,+Karla+Allison+2
008+The+beast%27s+wife:+Sexuality,+gender+and+the+other+in+twentieth-+and+twenty-first-
century+versions+of+%22Beauty+and+the+Beast%22&source=bl&ots=Gs82Y2DIrD&sig=ND7SKCwnsoLN
anOslGaQSjYRgmA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAWoVChMI4s2H_t3dyAIVQR6mCh35fQcU#v=onepag
e&q=Haynes%2C%20Karla%20Allison%202008%20The%20beast%27s%20wife%3A%20Sexuality%2C%20
gender%20and%20the%20other%20in%20twentieth-%20and%20twenty-first-
century%20versions%20of%20%22Beauty%20and%20the%20Beast%22&f=false;

McGrath, Dearbhla Weaving Words: A Diachronic Analysis of the Representation of Gender,

Sexuality and Otherness in Women’s (Re)Writings ofLa Belle et la Bête
http://doras.dcu.ie/19185/1/Final_PhD_thesis_-_Dearbhla_McGrath.pdf

PSYCHOLOGY

Gad, Irene “’Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘The Wonderful Sheep’: the Couple in Fairy Tales: When
Father’s Daughter Meets Mother’s Son” pp 27-48 in Psyche’s Stories: Modern Jungian Interpretations of
Fairy Tales Vol 1 edited by Murray Stein and Lionel Corbett

Hemphill, Victoria L. Beauty Awaits in the Darkness of Being: A Journey of Individuation

http://media.proquest.com/media/pq/classic/doc/3268056121/fmt/ai/rep/NPDF?_s=vUkDvy5Kka5W5A
UdPBcYfsQ8h08%3D

Heuscher, Julius E. Psychiatric Study of Fairy Tales Ch 20 Amor and Psyche

Ricklin, Franz “Wishfulfillment and Symbolism in Fairy Tales”

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wishfulfillment_and_Symbolism_in_Fairy_Tales/Chapter_V

BEAUTY

Puts, David A. “Beauty and the beast: mechanisms of sexual selection in humans” Evolution and
Human Behavior 31 (3) May 2010, pp 157–175. Abstract
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513810000279

Teaching Beauty and the Beast https://userpages.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/beautybeast.html

BEASTS

Aboriginal beast stories http://enargea.org/tales/Australian/Australian_Tales.html

Hearne, Betsy pp 35-7 The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters edited by
Professor Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

Gould, Joan “Beauties and Beasts: Descending into the body” pp 307-314 Spinning Straw into Gold:
what fairy tales reveal about the transformations in a woman’s life

Sax, Boria The Serpent and the Swan: The Animal Bride in Folklore and Literature. Book review
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=2857

Tatar, Maria The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales pp 172- 178

Warner, Marina From the Beast to the Blonde Ch 18 “Go! Be a Beast: Beauty and the Beast 2”
pp298-318

Animal bridegrooms

“Literary Animal Bridegroom Tales” in Tales of Faerie

http://talesoffaerie.blogspot.com.au/2010/08/literary-animal-bridegroom-tales.html

Windling , Terri “Married To Magic: Animal Brides And Bridegrooms In Folklore And Fantasy “
Journal of Mythical Arts http://www.endicott-studio.com/articleslist/married-to-magic-animal-brides-
and-bridegrooms-in-folklore-and-fantasy-by-terri-windling.html

WILDNESS

Basu-Zharku, Iulia O. “’Beauty and the Beast’ and ‘The Tiger's Bride’: To Be or Not To Be a Beast?”
Student Pulse 3 (01), 2011 http://www.studentpulse.com/articles/359/beauty-and-the-beast-and-the-
tigers-bride-to-be-or-not-to-be-a-beast?utm_expid=22625156-
1.sV9KDyk4TvGyRo_tLTD5HA.0&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com.au

Warner, Marina No Go the Bogeyman p 74ff

OTHERNESS (including Queer Readings)

Atkins, Dawn Looking Queer: Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender
Communities http://www.amazon.com/Looking-Queer-Identity-Transgender-
Communities/dp/156023931X; http://www.independentliving.org/docs5/Owenbook.html

Diamond, Fleur “Beauty and the Beautiful Beast: Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga and the Quest for a
Transgressive Female Desire” Australian Feminist Studies 26 (67), 24 Feb 2011, Special Issue:
Heterosexuality, pp 41-55. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08164649.2010.546327
Greenhill, Pauline “Wanting [To Be] Animal: Fairy-Tale Transbiology in The Storyteller [1]” Feral
Feminisms 2014 http://feralfeminisms.com/wanting-to-be-animal/

BODY AND SOUL

Warner, Marina From the Beast to the Blonde Ch 17 “Reluctant Brides: Beauty and the Beast 1”
pp 272- 297

Zipes, Jack “Beauty and the Beast” pp 139-142 in Why Fairy Tales Stick

DISABILITY

Ozer, Irma Jacqueline “Beauty of the Beast: The Depiction of the Physically Challenged in Literature
from an Adlerian Perspective” The Journal of Medical Humanities 11 (2) 1990, pp 67-73
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF01650686#page-1

SHAPESHIFTING

Themes in shapeshifting http://www.therianthropes.com/themes_in_shapeshifting.htm

TV Tropes: Shapeshifting Lover http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ShapeshiftingLover

ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS

Kristin, of Tales of Faerie Guest Post: Beauty and the Beast: A Feminist Tale?
http://spinstrawintogold.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/guest-post-beauty-and-beast-feminist.html

Tatar, Maria Ch 7 “Beauties and Beasts: From Blind Obedience to Love at First Sight” pp140-162 in
Off With Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood

TRANSFORMATIVE LOVE

“Beauty and the Beast: Transformation vs. Restoration” The Curious Jew: Looking for God in humanity 8
February 2008 http://curiousjew.blogspot.com.au/2008/02/beauty-and-beast-transformation-vs.html
Guroian, Vigen “Awakening the Moral Imagination: Teaching Virtues Through Fairy Tales”
http://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/art/awakening-the-moral-imagination-teaching-virtues-
through-fairy-tales.html

AUSTRALIAN

60 Minutes Classic: Beauty & The Beast (Lang and Rose Hancock)
http://www.9jumpin.com.au/show/60minutes/videos/3997248198001/

Lorena Carrington art of “East of the Sun, West of the Moon”.