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.

Sommario

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lewis C. Seifert, Lewis Carl Seifert
• Con la collaborazione di: Michael Sheringham (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 13.01.2012
• EAN: 9780521550055
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55005-5
• Pagine: 292
• Dimensioni: 145 mm x 222 mm x 21 mm
• Peso: 546 g
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in French
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata