Intimacies and Intimations: Storytelling between Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century France.
The French reading public learned at the beginning of the Third Republic that their country still possessed an oral storytelling tradition, thanks to the works of a generation of folktale collectors including Wentworth Webster, Emmanuel Cosquin, Paul Sébillot, Achille Millien and Félix Arnaudin. In...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Social History Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 557 - 592 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Spring2018
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