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

by Lewis C. Seifert

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052102627X
• ISBN13: 9780521026277
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"