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

A 1996 study of the genre of the literary fairy tale in late seventeenth-century France.

List of contents

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Lewis C. Seifert, Lewis Carl Seifert
• Assisted by: Michael Sheringham (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.01.2012
• EAN: 9780521550055
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55005-5
• No. of pages: 292
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 546 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories