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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Reddan, Bronwyn (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2020.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Love in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Courtship in literature.
Women and literature > France > History > 17th century.
French fiction > 17th century > History and criticism.
French fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Fairy tales > France > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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