title: The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World
author: J. Zipes
description: Zipes is probably the leading American authority on the fairy tale, which makes this new edition of his classic study of the Brothers Grimm (1988) especially welcome. Zipes has significantly revised and expanded his book, responding both to its earlier critics and to the wealth of new work on the Grimms to come out of East Germany since the fall of the Berlin Wall. He is concerned with both the artistry and the ideology of the tales. While agreeing that the Grimms often transformed their tales to reflect the bourgeois values of their world, Zipes wishes to avoid simplistic readings, exploring the complexity of what such values actually meant. At the same time, Zipes is interested in their later reception and appropriation, including the efforts of Disney. His new chapter on the legacy of the Grimms in East and West Germany is especially illuminating. Highly recommended.<BR><I>T.L. Cooksey, Armstrong Atlantic State Univ., Savannah, GA </I><BR>Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Nature in Downland
  
  
  [A NOTE ON HUDSON'S LITERARY
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  [CHAPTER I. THISTLE-DOWN](Nature%20in%20Downland_split_002.html#filepos20202)  
    
  [CHAPTER II. CHARM OF THE
  DOWNS](Nature%20in%20Downland_split_002.html#filepos47626)  
    
  [CHAPTER III. THE LIVING
  GARMENT](Nature%20in%20Downland_split_002.html#filepos65427)  
    
  [CHAPTER IV. A FAIRY
  FAUNA](Nature%20in%20Downland_split_002.html#filepos107147)  
    
  [CHAPTER V. WILD LIFE](Nature%20in%20Downland_split_002.html#filepos127258)  
    
  [CHAPTER VI. THE SHEPHERD OF THE
  DOWNS](Nature%20in%20Downland_split_002.html#filepos173797)  
    
  [CHAPTER VII. SHEPHERDS AND
  WHEATEARS](Nature%20in%20Downland_split_002.html#filepos206780)  
    
  [CHAPTER VIII. SILENCE AND
  MUSIC](Nature%20in%20Downland_split_003.html#filepos229744)  
    
  [CHAPTER IX. SUMMER HEAT](Nature%20in%20Downland_split_003.html#filepos267621)  
    
  [CHAPTER X. SWALLOWS AND
  