The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood

The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood edited by Jack Zipes is another critical book in reading and learning more about that girl in the red cape. This one studies the history of the tale and its various interpretations over the past few centuries.

Description from the publisher:

When is a wolf a wolf, and when is he a rapist?

In the new, expanded edition of his controversial and ground-breaking work, Jack Zipes presents the many tales of little Red Riding Hood. In tracing the evolution of the story, the author takes on those questions which other authors have shied away from: violation, rape, male fantasies, and manipulation.

This book collects 35 of the best versions of the story, from the first tellings as a folktale, to its written renderings by such authors as the Brothers Grimm, Walter de la Mare, James Thurber, Alphonse Daudet, Anne Sexton, Olga Broumas, and Angela Carter, providing a detailed social history of the literary Red Riding Hood.

Zipes uses these tales to explore questions of Western culture, sexism, and politics, and in a new epilogue examines the illustrations used in past versions for their “take on the tale.” A new preface and an expanded bibliography have also been included for the second edition. As with Jack Zipes’ other works, The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood will cause the reader to question just how harmless our fairy tales are.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Prologue: Framing Little Red Riding Hood
The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood
Notes on the Texts

The Texts

Little Red Riding Hood (1697) by Charles Perrault (French)

Little Red Riding Hood (1729) by Robert Samber (British)

The Story of Little Red Riding Hood (1796) by Anonymous (American)

The Life and Death of Little Red Riding Hood: A Tragedy (1800) by Ludwig Tieck (German)

The Wolf-King; or, Little Red Riding Hood: An Old Woman’s Tale (1801) by Anonymous (British)

Little Red Cap (1812) by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (German)

Little Red Riding Hood (1846) by F. W N. Bayley (British)

The Romance of Red Riding Hood (1862) by Alphonse Daudet (French)

The Story of Little Red Riding-Hood (1864) by Richard Henry Stoddard (American)

Ye True Hystorie of Little Red Riding Hood; or, The Lamb in Wolf’s Clothing (1872) by Alfred Mills (American)

The True History of Little Golden-Hood (1888) by Chales Marelle (French)

Little Red Riding-Hood (1895) by Sabine Baring-Gould (British)

Little Green Riding Hood (1914) by Pierre Cami (French)

Kuttel Daddeldu Tells His Children the Fairy Tale about Little Red Cap (1924) by Joachim Ringelnatz (German)

Sturry from Rad Ridink Hoot (1926) by Mitt Gross (American)

Little Red Riding Hood (1927) by Walter de la Mare (British)

Little Red Riding-Hood (1935) by Edith Anna OEnone Somerville (Irish)

The Girl and the Wolf (1939) by James Thurber (American)

Little Red Riding Hood as a Dictator Would Tell It (1940) by H. I. Phillips (American)

Little Polly Riding Hood (1955) by Catherine Storr (British)

Little Red Cap ‘65 (1965) by Anneliese Meinert (German)

Red Riding Hood (1971) by Anne Sexton (American)

Little Redhead and the Wolf (1972) by Iring Fetscher (German)

Red Riding Hood (1972) by Merseyside Fairy Story Collective (British)

Little Green Riding Hood (1973) by Gianni Rodari (Italian)

Little Red Cup (1974) by Max von der Grun (German)

Little Red Riding Hood (1974) by Tomi Ungerer (French)

The Old Wolf (1976) by Rudolf Otto Wiemer (German)

Little Aqua Riding Hood (1977) by Philippe Dumas & Boris Moissard (French)

Little Red Riding Hood (1977) by Olga Broumas (American)

Little Red Cap (1978) by O. F. Gmelin (German)

Little Red Hood: A Classic Story Bent Out of Shape (1978) by Tony Ross (British)

The Company of Wolves (1979) by Angela Carter (British)

Goldflower and the Bear (1979) by Chiang Mi (Chinese)

Wolfland (1983) by Tanith Lee (British)

Not So Little Red Riding Hood (1985) by Anne Sharpe (Irish)

The Waiting Wolf (1990) by Gwen Strauss (American)

Roja and Leopold (1990) by Sally Miller Gearhart (American)

Epilogue: Reviewing and Re-Framing Little Red Riding Hood

Notes on Authors
Selected Chronological Bibliography of Red Riding Hood Texts
General Bibliography
Copyrights