TY - BOOK AU - Lisa M. Fiander PY - 2021 CY - New York, United States of America PB - Peter Lang Verlag TI - Fairy Tales and the Fiction of Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble, and A. S. Byatt UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1098621 N2 - The Grimm brothers’ fairy tales have long fascinated readers with their violence and frank sexuality. Three of Britain’s most important novelists, Iris Murdoch, Margaret Drabble, and A. S. Byatt, have shared this fascination. Their fiction explores the darker themes of fairy tales – bestiality, cannibalism, and incest – and finds within them reasons to be optimistic about our fractured modern world. KW - Murdoch, Iris, Märchen (Motiv), Literature folklore, Byatt, A. S., Women /literature, Drabble, Margaret, Fairy tales, English fiction /20th century LA - English ER -