Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690-1715: Nostalgic Utopias

ISBN-13: 9780521026277 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 292 str.

Lewis Seifert; Michael Sheringham

Opis

Between 1690 and 1715, well over one hundred literary fairy tales appeared in France, two-thirds of them written by women. The first part of this book situates the rise of this genre within the literary and historical context of late-seventeenth-century France, and the second part examines the representation of sexuality, masculinity and femininity within selected groups of tales. The book proposes a new model for the application of feminist and gender theory to the literary fairy tale, from whatever national tradition.