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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lewis Seifert, Lewis C. Seifert
• Con la collaborazione di: Michael Sheringham (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 27.04.2006
• EAN: 9780521026277
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02627-7
• Dimensioni: 142 mm x 218 mm x 18 mm
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in French; Print On Demand; Print on Demand; Cambridge Studies in French
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche