List of Tables ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction: Shrinking Possibility Space 1
Part I On Theory, Method, and Attitude
1 On Theory 17
2 On Method 43
3 On Attitude 67
Part II Case Studies at the Nexus of Literature and Evolutionary Science
Introduction to Part II 89
4 The Heroine with a Thousand Faces: Universal Trends in the Characterization of Female Folktale Protagonists 91
5 Testing Feminist Fairy Tale Studies 115
6 The “Beauty Myth” is no Myth 127
7 Romantic Love: A Literary Universal? 157
Conclusion: FOTA 171
Author’s Previous Works 177
Appendix A: Folktale Collections and Cultural Groupings for Chapters 4 and 5 179
Appendix B: Folktale Collections for Chapters 6 and 7 185
Works Cited 191
Index 213
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