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Love, power, and gender in seventeenth-century French fairy tales
- Title
- Love, power, and gender in seventeenth-century French fairy tales / Bronwyn Reddan.
- Author
- Reddan, Bronwyn
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
- ©2020
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- Description
- xvii, 242 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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 courtship and marriage"--
- Series Statement
- Women and gender in the early modern world
- Uniform Title
- Women and gender in the early modern world.
- Subject
- 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
- Fairy tales
- French fiction
- French fiction > Women authors
- Women and literature
- France
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Reimagining Fairy-Tale Love -- Part 1. Formation of a Literary Emotional Community -- Creation of a Female Literary Community -- Shared Vocabulary of Love -- Part 2. Conversations about Love -- Courtship, Consent, and Declarations of Love -- Marriage, Gift-Giving, and the Obligation of Love -- Love after Marriage: Moral Lessons and Unhappy Endings -- Conclusion: Truth-Finding in Fairy Tales -- Appendix 1: french Fairy Tales, 1690-1709 -- Appendix 2: Tales Produced by the Conteuses, 1690-1709 -- Appendix 3: Publication Details of the First Known Editions of the Conteuses' Tales -- Appendix 4 Publication Details of Literary Works by the Conteuses -- Appendix 5: Declarations of Love by Heroes -- Appendix 6: Declarations of Love by Heroines.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-3695
- ISBN
- 9781496216151
- 1496216156
- LCCN
- 2020007547
- OCLC
- 1151471627
- Author
- Reddan, Bronwyn, author.
- Title
- Love, power, and gender in seventeenth-century French fairy tales / Bronwyn Reddan.
- Publisher
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Women and gender in the early modern worldWomen and gender in the early modern world.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1600-1699
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-3695