ABSTRACT
Toward the latter part of the nineteenth century the discourse on proper socialization through fairy tales received a jolt. Whereas Perrault, the Grimms, Andersen, some imitators like Benjamin Tabert, Felix Summerly, Gustav Holting, Ludwig Bechstein, and a host of other writers legitimized the
normative standards of civilité through their symbolic constructs, confi gurations, and plots of their tales, a new trend became visible in the Anglo-Saxon world, namely, in Great Britain and the United States, which refl ected sharp criticism of traditional child rearing and the rationalized means of discipline and punishment employed to make children into good and responsible citizens.
