Fairy Tales

For Further Reading

TRANSLATIONS OF ANDERSEN’S WORKS IN ENGLISH

Andersen, H. C. Author’s Edition [Andersen’s Works]. 10 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1869-1908.

The Andersen-Scudder Letters. Edited and translated by Waldemar Westergaard; introduction by Jean Hersholt; interpretative essay by Helge Topsøe-Jensen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1949. Andersen’s correspondence with American editor, publisher, and writer Horace Elisha Scudder.

Brothers, Very Far Away and Other Poems. Edited by Sven Rossel. Seattle, WA: Mermaid Press, 1991.

The Diaries of Hans Christian Andersen. Edited and translated by Patricia Conroy and Sven Rossel. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1990.

The Fairy Tale of My Life. Translated by W. Glyn Jones. New York: British Book Centre, 1954.

The Fairy Tale of My Life. Translated by Horace Scudder. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871.

Hans Christian Andersen’s Correspondence with the Late Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Charles Dickens, etc. etc. Edited by Frederick Crawford. London: Dean and Son, 1891.

The Improvisatore; or, Life in Italy. Translated by Mary Howitt. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley, 1845.

In Spain. Translated by Mrs. Bushby. London: Richard Bentley, 1864.

In Spain, and A Visit to Portugal. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1870.

Lucky Peer. Translated by Horace E. Scudder. Scribner’s Monthly (January, February, March, and April 1871).

Only a Fiddler! and O. T.; or, Life in Denmark. 3 vols. Translated by Mary Howitt. London: Richard Bentley, 1845.

Pictures of Sweden. Translated by I. Svering. London: Richard Bentley, 1851.

Pictures of Travel in Sweden, among the Hartz Mountains, and in Switzerland, with a Visit at Charles Dickens’s House, etc. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871.

A Poet’s Bazaar. 3 vols. Translated by Charles Beckwith Lohmeyer. London: Richard Bentley, 1846.

Rambles in the Romantic Regions of the Hartz Mountains. Translated by Charles Beckwith Lohmeyer. London: Richard Bentley, 1848.

Seven Poems—Syv digte. Translated by R. P. Keigwin. Odense: Hans Christian Andersen’s House, 1955.

The Story of My Life. Translated by Horace E. Scudder. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1871.

To Be, or Not to Be? Translated by Mrs. Bushby. London: Richard Bentley, 1857.

The True Story of My Life. Translated by Mary Howitt. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847.

The Two Baronesses. 2 vols. Translated by Charles Beckwith Lohmeyer. London: Richard Bentley, 1848.

A Visit to Portugal 1866. Translated and edited by Grace Thornton. London: Peter Owen, 1972.

A Visit to Spain and North Africa. Translated and edited by Grace Thornton. London: Peter Owen, 1975.

CRITICAL WORKS

Andersen, Jens. Hans Christian Andersen: A New Life. Translated by Tiina Nunnally. Woodstock: Overlook Press, 2006.

Atkins, A. M. “The Triumph of Criticism: Levels of Meaning in Hans Christian Andersen’s The Steadfast Tin Soldier.” Scholia Satyrica 1 (1975), pp. 25-28.

Bain, R. Nisbet. Hans Christian Andersen: A Biography. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1895.

Bell, Elizabeth, Lynda Haas, and Laura Sells, eds. From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Book, Fredrik. Hans Christian Andersen: A Biography. Translated by G. Schoolfield. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962.

Born, Ann. “Hans Christian Andersen: An Infectious Genius.” Anderseniana 2 (1976), pp. 248-260.

Brandes, Georg. “Hans Christian Andersen.” In Eminent Authors of the Nineteenth Century. Translated by R. B. Anderson. New York: Crowell, 1886.

Braude, L. Y “Hans Christian Andersen and Russia.” Scandinavica 14 (1975), pp. 1-15.

Bredsdorff, Elias. Hans Andersen and Charles Dickens: A Friendship and Its Dissolution. Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1956.

—. Hans Christian Andersen: The Story of His Life and Work, 1805-75. London: Phaidon, 1975.

Bredsforff, Thomas. Deconstructing Hans Christian Andersen: Some of His Fairy Tales in the Light of Literary Theory—and Vice versa. Minneapolis: Center for Nordic Studies, University of Minnesota, 1993.

Browning, George. A Few Personal Recollections of Hans Christian Andersen. London: Unwin, 1875.

Burnett, Constance B. The Shoemaker’s Son: The Life of Hans Christian Andersen. New York: Random House, 1941.

Dahlerup, Pil. “Splash! Six Views of “The Little Mermaid.” Scandinavian Studies 63:2 (1991), pp. 141-163.

Dal, Erik. “Hans Christian Andersen’s Tales and America.” Scandinavian Studies 40 (1968), pp. 1-25.

Duffy, Maureen. “The Brothers Grimm and Sister Andersen.” In The Erotic World of Faery. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1972, pp. 263-284.

Frank, Diane Crone, and Jeffrey Frank. “A Melancholy Dane.” The New Yorker (January 8, 2001), pp. 78-84.

. “The Real Hans Christian Andersen.” In The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen, translated by Diane Crone Frank and Jeffrey Frank. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003, pp. 1-36.

Godden, Rumer. Hans Christian Andersen: A Great Life in Brief. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954.

Grønbech, Bo. Hans Christian Andersen. Boston: Twayne, 1980.

Haugaard, Erik C. “Hans Christian Andersen: A Twentieth-Century View.” Scandinavian Review 14 (1975), pp. 1-15.

Hees, Annelies van. “The Little Mermaid.” In H. C. Andersen: Old Problems and New Readings, edited by Steven Sondrup. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 2004, pp. 259-270.

Heltoft, Kjeld. Hans Christian Andersen as an Artist. Translated by Reginald Spink. Copenhagen: Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1977.

Holbek, Bengt. “Hans Christian Andersen’s Use of Folktales.” In A Companion to the Fairy Tale, edited by Hilda Ellis David-son and Anna Chaudri. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003, pp. 149-158.

Houe, Poul. “Going Places: Hans Christian Andersen, the Great European Traveler.” In Hans Christian Andersen: Danish Writer and Citizen of the World, edited by Sven Rossel. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996, pp. 123-175.

. “Andersen in Time and Place—Time and Place in Andersen.” In Hans Christian Andersen: A Poet in Time, edited by Johan de Mylius, Aage Jørgensen, and Viggo Hjør-nager Pedersen. Odense: Odense University Press, 1999, pp. 87-108.

Johnson, Spencer. The Value of Fantasy: The Story of Hans Christian Andersen. La Jolla, CA: Value Communications, 1979.

Jones, W. Glyn. Denmark. New York: Praeger, 1970.

. “Andersen and Those of Other Faiths.” In Hans Christian Andersen: A Poet in Time, edited by Johan de Mylius, Aage Jørgensen, and Viggo Hjørnager Pedersen. Odense: Odense University Press, 1999, pp. 259-270.

Jørgensen, Aage. Hans Christian Andersen Through the European Looking Glass. Odense: Odense University Press, 1998.

Koelb, Clayton. “The Rhetoric of Ethical Engagement.” In his Inventions of Reading: Rhetoric and the Literary Imagination. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988, pp. 202-219.

Kofoed, Niels. “Hans Christian Andersen and the European Literary Tradition.” In Hans Christian Andersen: Danish Writer and Citizen of the World, edited by Sven Rossel. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996, pp. 209-356.

Lederer, Wolfgang. The Kiss of the Snow Queen: Hans Christian Andersen and Man ’s Redemption by Women. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Manning-Sanders, Ruth. Swan of Denmark: The Story of Hans Christian Andersen. London: Heinemann, 1949.

Marker, Frederick. Hans Christian Andersen and the Romantic Theatre: A Study of Stage Practices in the Prenaturalistic Scandinavian Theatre. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971.

Massengale, James. “The Miracle and A Miracle in the Life of a Mermaid.” In Hans Christian Andersen: A Poet in Time, edited by Johan de Mylius, Aage Jørgensen, and Viggo Hjørager Pedersen. Odense: Odense University Press, 1999, pp. 555-576.

Meynell, Esther. The Story of Hans Andersen. New York: Henry Schuman, 1950.

Mishler, William, “H. C. Andersen’s ‘Tin Soldier’ in a Freudian Perspective.” Scandinavian Studies 50 (1978), pp. 389-395.

Mitchell, P. M. A History of Danish Literature. Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1957, pp. 150-160.

Mortensen, Finn Hauberg. A Tale of Tales: Hans Christian Andersen and Danish Children’s Literature. Four parts in 2 vols. Minneapolis: Center for Nordic Studies, University of Minnesota, 1989.

Mouritsen, Flemming. “Children’s Literature.” In A History of Danish Literature, edited by Sven Rossel. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992, pp. 609-631.

Mudrick, Marvin. “The Ugly Duck.” Scandinavian Review 68 (1980), pp. 34-48.

Mylius, Johan de. The Voice of Nature in Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales. Odense: Odense University Press, 1989.

. “Hans Christian Andersen and the Music World.” In Hans Christian Andersen: Danish Writer and Citizen of the World, edited by Sven Rossel. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996, pp. 176-208.

Mylius, Johan de, Aage Jørgensen, and Viggo Hjørnager Pedersen, eds. Hans Christian Andersen: A Poet in Time. Odense: Odense University Press, 1999.

Nielsen, Erling. Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875): The Writer Everybody Reads and Loves, and Nobody Knows. Copenhagen: Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1983.

Pedersen, Viggo Hjørnager. Ugly Ducklings? Studies in the English Translations of Hans Christian Andersen’s Tales and Stories. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2004.

Prince, Alison. Hans Christian Andersen: The Fan Dancer. London: Allison and Busby, 1998.

Reumert, Elith. Hans Christian Andersen the Man. Translated by Jessie Bröchner. London: Methuen, 1927.

Robb, N. A. “Hans Christian Andersen.” In Four in Exile. 1948. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1968, pp. 120-151.

Rossel, Sven, ed. A History of Danish Literature. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992.

, ed. Hans Christian Andersen: Danish Writer and Citizen of the World. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996.

Rubow, Paul V. “Idea and Form in Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales.” In A Book on the Danish Writer Hans Christian Andersen: His Life and Work. Copenhagen: Committee for Danish Cultural Activities Abroad, 1955, pp. 97-135.

Sells, Laura. “‘Where Do the Mermaids Stand?’ Voice and Body in The Little Mermaid.” In From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture, edited by Elizabeth Bell, Lynda Haas, and Laura Sells. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995, pp. 175-192.

Sondrup, Steven, ed. H. C. Andersen: Old Problems and New Readings. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 2004.

Spink, Reginald. Hans Christian Andersen and His World. London : Thames and Hudson, 1972.

Stirling, Monica. The Wild Swan: The Life and Times of Hans Christian Andersen. London: Collins, 1965.

Toksvig, Signe. The Life of Hans Christian Andersen. London: Macmillan, 1933.

Trites, Roberta. “Disney’s Sub/version of The Little Mermaid.” Journal of Popular Television and Film 18 (1990/1991), pp. 145-159.

Wullschläger, Jackie. Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller. London: Allen Lane, 2000.

Zipes, Jack. Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilization. London: Heinemann, 1983.

. Hans Christian Andersen: The Misunderstood Storyteller. New York: Routledge, 2005.