Fairy tales, sexuality, and gender in France, 1690-1715 :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
nostalgic utopias /
First Statement of Responsibility
Lewis C. Seifert.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, N.Y. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1996.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xii, 276 pages ;
Dimensions
22 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Cambridge studies in French ;
Volume Designation
55
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-270) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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 book explores why fashionable adults were attracted to this new literary genre and considers how it became a medium for reconceiving literary and historical discourses of sexuality and gender. Integrating socio-historical, structuralist, and post-structuralist approaches, Seifert argues that these fairy tales use the "marvelous" (or supernatural) to mediate between conflicting cultural desires, particularly between nostalgia and utopian longings.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Fairy tales-- France-- History and criticism.
French fiction-- 17th century-- History and criticism.
French fiction-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
Gender identity in literature.
Marvelous, The, in literature.
Sex in literature.
Utopias in literature.
Contes de fées-- France-- Histoire et critique.
Identité sexuelle dans la littérature.
Merveilleux dans la littérature.
Roman français-- 17e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
Roman français-- 18e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
Sexualité dans la littérature.
18.25 French literature.
Amour-- Dans la littérature.
Contes de fées-- France-- Histoire.
Contes français-- 17e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
Contes français-- 18e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
Fairy tales-- France-- History and criticism.
Fairy tales.
Frans.
Französisch
French fiction-- 17th century-- History and criticism.
French fiction-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
French fiction.
Gender identity in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Geschlechterrolle
Kunstmärchen
Kunstsprookjes.
Littérature française-- 17e siècle-- Thèmes, motifs.
Littérature française-- 18e siècle-- Thèmes, motifs.