Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690-1715 - Nostalgic Utopias

Zusammenfassung Between 1690 and 1715! well over one hundred literary fairy tales appeared in France! two-thirds of them written by women. The first part of this 1996 book situates the rise of this genre within the literary and historical context of late seventeenth-century France! and the second part examines the representation of sexuality! masculinity and femininity within selected groups of tales. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Marvelous Storytelling: 1. Marvelous realities: toward an understanding of the merveilleux; 2. Reading (and) the ironies of the marvelous; 3. The marvelous in context: the place of the contes de fées in late seventeenth-century France; Part II. Marvelous Desires: 4. Quests for love: visions of sexuality; 5. (De)mystifications of masculinity: fictios of transcendence; 6. Imagining femininity: binarity and beyond; Afterword; Notes, Selected bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Lewis Seifert, Lewis C. Seifert
• Assisted by: Michael Sheringham (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.04.2006
• EAN: 9780521026277
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02627-7
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 218 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French; Print On Demand; Print on demand; Cambridge Studies in French
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories