It’s our last LIT(erature) Summer episode and the end of Season One! We’re looking at the original 18th Century French fairy tale Beauty and the Beast and trying (unsuccessfully) to not reference Disney. We delve into other Beast and Beauty tales and the lasting impact of the story on literature, film, and culture.
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Further Reading
Prominent Adaptations
1987 TV series
1991 Disney animated film
1997 The Beautician and the Beast
2011 Beastly
2012 TV series
2014 French film
2017 Disney live-action remake
Novel Retellings
Beauty and Rose Daughter, Robin McKinley
Beastly, Alex Flinn
A Court of Thorns and Roses, Sarah J. Maas
Hunted, Megan Spooner
Cruel Beauty, Rosamund Hodge
The Beast’s Heart, Leife Shallcross
Uprooted, Naomi Novik
Rhonda’s blog post on Disney Princesses as Jane Austen heroines
Dark origins of Beauty and the Beast (this article credits de Beaumont, unfortunately, but it gives a great background on the sources for the tale)
An illustrated edition of the original novella
Andrew Lang’s Blue Fairy Book
Psychology of Beauty and the Beast
A look at the psychology in the Disney musical
Deconstructing the myth of women loving men into better people
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