| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 242 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Women and gender in the early modern world
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Women and gender in the early modern world.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Fairy tales -- France -- History and criticism.
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French fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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French fiction -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
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Women and literature -- France -- History -- 17th century.
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Courtship in literature.
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Marriage in literature.
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Love in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French. |
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Courtship in literature. |
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Fairy tales. |
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French fiction. |
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French fiction -- Women authors. |
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Love in literature. |
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Marriage in literature. |
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Women and literature. |
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France. |
| Chronological Term |
1600-1699 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| ISBN |
9781496223951 (electronic book) |
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1496223950 (electronic book) |
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9781496216151 |
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1496216156 |
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