The Heroine with 1,001 Faces
World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long-buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman. The Heroine with 1,001 Faces dismantles the cult of warrior heroes, revealing a secret history of heroinism at the very heart of our collective cultural imagination. Maria Tatar, a leading authority on fairy tales and folklore, explores how heroines, rarely wielding a sword and often deprived of a pen, have flown beneath the radar even as they have been bent on redemptive missions. Deploying the domestic crafts and using words as weapons, they have found ways to survive assaults and rescue others from harm, all while repairing the fraying edges in the fabric of their social worlds.…
Maria Tatar is the John L. Loeb Research Professor and a Senior Fellow at Harvard University. The editor of the Norton Critical Edition of The Classic Fairy Tales and The Annotated Brothers Grimm, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque; Translated by Maria Tatar; Foreword by Samantha Power
The Heroine with 1,001 Faces
Maria Tatar
Fairest of Them All
Maria Tatar
Beauty and the Beast
Edited by Maria Tatar
The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales
Franz Xaver von Schönwerth; Illustrated by Engelbert Suss