Introduction
PART I. THE MIDDLE AGES: FEUDALISM AND "LA SOCIÉTÉ COURTOISE"
1. Melusine: "The Beauty of Things is Fleet and Swift"
PART II. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY: "LE GRAND SIÈCLE"
2. Charles Perrault's Multi-Veined Donkey Skin, Sleeping Beauty, and Bluebeard
3. Mme d'Aulnoy's The BluebirdMetamorphosis, an Unconscious Readjustment
PART III. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: "L'ESPRIT PHILOSOPHIQUE"
4. Denis Diderot's The White BirdAs Holy Ghost/Holy Spirit
5. Was Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Fantastic Queen Merely a Tongue-in-Cheek Fairy Tale?
PART IV. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: "LE ROMANTISME"ESTHETIC AND UTILITARIAN
6. Charles Nodier's The Crumb FairyA Sacred Marriage of Sun and Moon
7. Théophile Gautier's Parapsychological Hetaera/Fairy: Arria Marcella
8. Countess Sophie De Ségur's RosetteA Manichean Merry-Go-Round
9. George Sand's The Castle Of Crooked PeakThe Topography of Memory Manipulation
10. Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelléas and MélisandeThe Dying Complex
PART V. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: SLAUGHTER/SCIENCE/ SPIRITUALITY
11. Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast"The Plucking of a Rose"
12. Andrée Chedid's The Suspended HeartThe Mystery of Being
CONCLUSION
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX