Even more sluggish were the sales of the second volume which appeared in 1815. Jacob, the older brother, did not continue to fight the deficient interest, because his main concern was securing the oral culture in academic form.
But Wilhelm, who had the young reading public in mind and had already carefully edited the first volume, developed his innate romantic fairytale style in the next years.
He transformed the too shocking, amoral stories through the lens of middle-class value concepts: wicked mothers became evil stepmothers, nude princes were splendidly dressed, and Rapunzel s pregnancy remained undiscovered by the wicked witch as well as by the young reader.
www.grimm2013.nordhessen.deJacob, den Älteren, focht das mangelnde Interesse nicht weiter an, denn sein Hauptinteresse war die Sicherung einer mündlichen Kultur in wissenschaftlicher Form gewesen.
Wilhelm aber, der die kindliche Leserschaft im Auge und bereits im ersten Band behutsam redigierend Hand angelegt hatte, entwickelte in den nächsten Jahren seinen ureigenen romantischen Märchenstil.
Und er wandelte allzu anstößige, amoralische Geschichten im Sinne bürgerlicher Wertvorstellungen um:
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