Essay Question
Discuss how The Book of Lost Things and Fairy Tales for Wilde Girls challenge the conventions and limitations of the fairy tale. How successful are they in adapting the fairy tale for contemporary readers?
Support your argument by close textual analysis, making use of the set scholarly readings and course concepts (e.g. gender, intertextuality, fairy tale) we have studied this semester. Use quotations from the two novels to support your arguments.
Note you must give equal weighting to both novels in your essay.
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Fairytales for Wilde Girls by Allyse Near
