Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-century French Fairy Tales
Author | : Bronwyn Reddan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
ISBN-10 | : 1496223942 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781496223944 |
Rating | : 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Download or read book Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-century French Fairy Tales written by Bronwyn Reddan and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales questions 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