Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College English Honors Papers English Department 2016 Beasts, Brides, and Brutality: The nI tersection of Animalism and Gender in European Fairy Tales Rachel Matson Connecticut College,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/enghp Part of the Children's and Young Adult Literature Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, French and Francophone Language and Literature Commons, and the German Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Matson, Rachel, "Beasts, Brides, and Brutality: The nI tersection of Animalism and Gender in European Fairy Tales" (2016). English Honors Papers. 25. http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/enghp/25 This Honors Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the English Department at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in English Honors Papers by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. Beasts, Brides, and Brutality: The Intersection of Animalism and Gender in European Fairy Tales An Honors Thesis presented by Rachel Elizabeth Matson to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Honors in the Major Field Connecticut College New London, Connecticut May 2016 Acknowledgments -First- To my readers, Courtney Baker and Michelle Neely: for their wisdom and support, and to the English Department: for being my home. -Then- To Debra and to David: for reading since the beginning, and listening until the end. -Finally- To my advisor, Jeff Strabone: for helping me realize all the things I have been waiting to say.