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Love, power, and gender in seventeenth-century French fairy tales / Bronwyn Reddan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reddan, Bronwyn, author.
- Series:
- Women and gender in the early modern world.
- Women and gender in the early modern world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fairy tales--France--History and criticism.
- Fairy tales.
- French fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
- French fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2020.
- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781496223937
- 1496223934
- 9781496216151
- 1496216156
- OCLC:
- 1200578470
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