Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690–1715: Nostalgic Utopias (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 55)

Cambridge Studies in French

by Lewis C. Seifert

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.

292 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996