Love, power, and gender in seventeenth-century French fairy tales

Reddan, Bronwyn

Love, power, and gender in seventeenth-century French fairy tales

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posted on 2020-01-01, 00:00 authored by Bronwyn Reddan

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 ...

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1-270

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9781496223937

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1496223934

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eng

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A1 Books - authored - research

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5

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University of Nebraska Press

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Lincoln, Nebraska

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Women and gender in the early modern world

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https://muse.jhu.edu/book/78583

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Fiction 1600-1699 conte de fées<\/i>courtship fiction French literature gender happy ending love marriage power 4703 Language studies

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