Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales
| Author | : Bronwyn Reddan |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2020-12 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781496216151 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1496216156 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales by : Bronwyn Reddan
Download or read book Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales written by Bronwyn Reddan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.