Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: fiction and the contemporaneity of the fairy tale / Stephen Benson
  • Penetrating to the heart of The bloody chamber : Angela Carter and the fairy tale / Sarah Gamble
  • Migrant fictions : Salman Rushdie and the fairy tale / Andrew Teverson
  • "Ancient forms" : myth, fairy tale, and narrative in A.S. Byatt's fiction / Elizabeth Wanning Harries
  • Margaret Atwood and the fairy tale : postmodern revisioning in recent texts / Sharon R. Wilson
  • The late fairy tales of Robert Coover / Stephen Benson
  • Theorizing fairy-tale fiction, reading Jeanette Winterson / Merja Makinen
  • Extrapolating from Nalo Hopkinson's Skin folk : reflections on transformation and recent English-language fairy-tale fiction by women / Cristina Bacchilega.