Fairy tales, sexuality, and gender in France, 1690-1715 : nostalgic utopias / Lewis C. Seifert
1996, 1st edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #405091
Physical description; (xii, 276 pages). Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-270) and index. Contents; 1. Marvelous realities: toward an understanding of the merveilleux -- 2. Reading (and) the ironies of the marvelous -- 3. The marvelous in context: the place of the contes de fees in late seventeenth-century France -- 4. Quests for love: visions of sexuality -- 5. (De)mystifications of masculinity: fictions of transcendence -- 6. Imagining femininity: binarity and beyond. Subjects; Perrault, Charles 1628-1703. Contes. Perrault, Charles 1628-1703. Histoires ou contes du temps passé. Perrault, Charles 1628-1703. Contes des fées. 1600-1799. 17th century. 18th century. Fairy tales France History and criticism. French fiction 17th century History and criticism. French fiction 18th century History and criticism. Sex in literature. Gender identity in literature. Marvelous, The, in literature. Utopias in literature. Sex in literature. Utopias in literature. Fairy tales
French fiction.
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