Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690 1715

Nostalgic Utopias

By: Lewis Seifert, Michael Sheringham (Editor)

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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.

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"This is in many ways an outstanding scholarly achievement." Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies, Vol. 11,Nos. 1-2 "This impressive study provides great insight into not only the Marvellous and the conte de fees, but also issues of sexuality and gender under the ancien regime and at times of cultural transition and unease in general. It is a compelling tale, well told." Mererid Puw Davies, Eighteenth Century Fiction "Seifert provides us with a solid and learned study of French fairy tale in its beginnings. He has much to tell us, and he shows us that we have much to learn." Modern Philology

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Popular Beliefs & Controversial Knowledge Folklore Studies / Study of Myth (Mythology)Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1500 to 1800

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Marvelous Storytelling
Marvelous realities: toward an understanding of the merveilleux
Reading (and) the ironies of the marvelous
The marvelous in context: the place of the contes de fées in late seventeenth-century France
Marvelous Desires
Quests for love: visions of sexuality
(De)mystifications of masculinity: fictios of transcendence
Imagining femininity: binarity and beyond
Afterword
Notes
Selected bibliography
Index
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Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690 1715

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