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The linguist and philologist Jacob Grimm (1785-1863), best remembered as co-editor of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, also wrote this exhaustive study of comparative mythology, first published in German in 1835. This…

Twenty essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its nineteenth century origins to its academic coming-of-age in the twentieth century.