The irresistible fairy tale the cultural and social history of a genre - Zipes, Jack 1937- (Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 2012)
The cultural evolution of storytelling and fairy tales: human communication and memetics -- The meaning of fairy tale within the evolution of culture -- Remaking "Bluebeard", or Good-bye to Perrault -- Witch as Fairy/Fairy as witch: unfathomable Baba Yagas -- The tales of innocent persecuted heroines and their neglected female storytellers and collectors -- Giuseppe Pitre? and the great collectors of folk tales in the nineteenth century -- Fairy-tale collisions, or the Explosion of a genre.
Keywords: Fairy tales -- History and criticism; Fairy tales -- Social aspects