Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690-1715

Download or read book Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690-1715 written by Lewis C. Seifert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-11-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 theory to the literary fairy tale, from whatever national tradition.