Love, power, and gender in seventeenth-century French fairy tales /

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"Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales questions the idealization of fairy-tale romance as the ultimate happy ending by showing how the women writers who dominated the first French fairy-tale vogue, the conteuses, used the genre to critique the power dynamics of cour...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reddan, Bronwyn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2020
Colección:Women and gender in the early modern world.
Temas:
1600-1699
Fairy tales > France > History and criticism.
French fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
French fiction > 17th century > History and criticism.
Women and literature > France > History > 17th century.
Courtship in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Love in literature.
Contes de fées > France > Histoire et critique.
Roman français > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > France > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Amours dans la littérature.
Mariage dans la littérature.
Amour dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Fairy tales.
French fiction.
French fiction > Women authors.
Women and literature.
France.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Reimagining Fairy-Tale Love
  • Part 1. Formation of a Literary Emotional Community (1. The Creation of a Female Literary Community; 2. A Shared Vocabulary of Love)
  • Part 2. Conversations about Love (3. Courtship, Consent, and Declarations of Love; 4. Marriage, Gift-Giving, and the Obligation of Love; 5. Love after Marriage: Moral Lessons and Unhappy Endings)
  • Conclusion: Truth-Finding in Fairy Tales.

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