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Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales

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Bronwyn Reddan challenges 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.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9781496216151
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 264
  • Published:
  • December 1, 2020
  • Dimensions:
  • 152x229x0 mm.
Delivery: 2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: May 27, 2024

Description of Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales

Bronwyn Reddan challenges 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.

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