Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-century French Fairy Tales
Title | Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-century French Fairy Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Bronwyn Reddan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781496223944 |
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
Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales
Title | Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Bronwyn Reddan |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2020-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1496223934 |
Love is a key ingredient in the stereotypical fairy-tale ending in which everyone lives happily ever after. This romantic formula continues to influence contemporary ideas about love and marriage, but it ignores the history of love as an emotion that shapes and is shaped by hierarchies of power including gender, class, education, and social status. This interdisciplinary study questions the idealization of love as the ultimate happy ending by showing how the conteuses, the women writers who dominated the first French fairy-tale vogue in the 1690s, used the fairy-tale genre to critique the power dynamics of courtship and marriage. Their tales do not sit comfortably in the fairy-tale canon as they explore the good, the bad, and the ugly effects of love and marriage on the lives of their heroines. Bronwyn Reddan argues that the conteuses' scripts for love emphasize the importance of gender in determining the "right" way to love in seventeenth-century France. Their version of fairy-tale love is historical and contingent rather than universal and timeless. This conversation about love compels revision of the happily-ever-after narrative and offers incisive commentary on the gendered scripts for the performance of love in courtship and marriage in seventeenth-century France.
Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690-1715
Title | Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690-1715 PDF eBook |
Author | Lewis C. Seifert |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 1996-11-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 052155005X |
Between 1690 and 1715, well over one hundred literary fairy tales appeared in France, two-thirds of them written by women. This 1996 book explores why fashionable adults were attracted to this new literary genre and, integrating socio-historical, structuralist, and post-structuralist approaches, considers how it became a medium for reconceiving literary and historical discourses of sexuality and gender. The first part of the book considers how the marvellous is used to legitimize the genre, to exemplify theories of 'modern' culture, and to reaffirm women's potential as writers. The second part examines how specific groups of tales both reiterate and unsettle late seventeenth-century discourses of love, masculinity and femininity through conventions such as the romantic quest, the marriage closure, chivalric heroes and good and evil fairies.
Fabulous Identities
Title | Fabulous Identities PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Hannon |
Publisher | Rodopi |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Authors, French |
ISBN | 9789042005228 |
Fabulous Identities revises traditional interpretations of the fairy-tale vogue which was dominated by salon women in the last decade of the French seventeenth century. This study of women's tale narratives is set into an investigation of how aristocratic identity was transformed by political and social realignments forced by royal absolutism or ambitious materialism. Women's distinctive contributions to the genre are defined by drawing upon various texts that articulated the century's moral, cultural, and aesthetic values, as well as upon contemporary critical perspectives including seventeenth-century historical and cultural studies. Caught up in the philosophical, political and social controversy over woman's nature, seventeenth-century women writers benefited from salon culture and their access to writing through the literary genres of fairy tales and novels, to explore new identities and expand representations of subjectivity. Women's tales can be seen as a theater for staging an authorial persona at odds with their portrait as presented in male-authored didactic treatises and in the fairy tales of Charles Perrault. At a time when the pressures of social conformity weighed heavily upon them, the conteuses highlight through metamorphosis the affective dimension together with its impact on evolving notions of personal autonomy.
Making the Marvelous
Title | Making the Marvelous PDF eBook |
Author | Rori Bloom |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2022-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1496222679 |
Rori Bloom demonstrates that Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy (1652–1705) and Henriette-Julie de Murat (1670–1716) changed the stakes of the fairy tale: instead of inviting their readers to marvel at the magic that changes rags to riches, they enjoined them to acknowledge the skill that transforms raw materials into beautifully made works of art.
The Lost Princess
Title | The Lost Princess PDF eBook |
Author | Anne E. Duggan |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2023-09-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1789148138 |
Once upon a time: the forgotten female fabulists whose heroines flipped the fairy tale script. People often associate fairy tales with Disney films and with the male authors from whom Disney often drew inspiration—notably Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen. In these portrayals, the princess is a passive, compliant figure. By contrast, The Lost Princess shows that classic fairy tales such as “Cinderella,” “Rapunzel,” and “Beauty and the Beast” have a much richer, more complex history than Disney’s saccharine depictions. Anne E. Duggan recovers the voices of women writers such as Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Marie-Jeanne L’Héritier, and Charlotte-Rose de La Force, who penned popular tales about ogre-killing, pregnant, cross-dressing, dynamic heroines who saved the day. This new history will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about the lost, plucky heroines of historic fairy tales.
Scopoféelia
Title | Scopoféelia PDF eBook |
Author | Maren Williams |
Publisher | |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Fairy tales |
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