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Kelly Jarvis: Beauty and the Beast as an Economic Story
Fairy tales were not written for children, and most of them are not love stories at all. Kelly Jarvis, who teaches fairy tales and folklore, returns to the show to trace what the romance novel took from the old tales, and what a romance can do that a fairy tale never could.
Along the way she reads Beauty and the Beast as a story about money, and draws a line between the wealth that hoards and the wealth that circulates. She explains why Cinderella has been consistently misread. And she walks through a category of tale, thousands of years old, in which the woman is always the one who goes out…
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