Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-279) and index.
Contents
Politics, gender, and cultural change -- Love orders chaos: Madeleine de Scudéry's Celélie, Histoire Romaine -- Adults at play: Les chroniques des Samedis de Mademoiselle de Scudéry -- Boileau and Perrault: the public sphere and female folly -- The tyranny of patriarchs in L'Histoire d'Hypolite, comte de Duglas -- Fairy tales and Mondanité.