Love, power, and gender in seventeenth-century French fairy tales

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 Ob...

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1. Verfasser: Reddan, Bronwyn (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Women and gender in the early modern world
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Zusammenfassung: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.
"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"--
Beschreibung:xvii, 242 Seiten
ISBN:9781496216151
978-1-4962-1615-1