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

Contributor(s): Reddan, Bronwyn (Author)

ISBN: 9781496216151

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Hardcover

$65.00

Pub Date: December 1, 2020

Dewey: 398.20944

LCCN: 2020007547

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.75" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 1.23 lbs) 264 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: 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.

Review Quotes: "Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales is a notable addition to scholarship of the conteuses' literary tales and provides a multidimensional view of the gendered experience of love and of the trope of the happily-ever-after."--Adrion Dula, Journal of American Folklore

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