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Description:In late seventeenth-century France, the conte de fées, or fairy tale, became a fashionable new genre. Although literary history has privileged Charles Perrault’s Mother Goose Tales, it was sophisticated and ironic women who not only inaugurated the vogue but also produced sixty-eight of the one hundred and twelve tales published from 1690 to 1709. These conteuses experimented with various forms of fiction and celebrated women’s writing, all the while criticizing the oppression of marriage and the social strictures placed upon women. This collection presents eight fairy tales (most never before translated into English) by the most prominent women authors: Catherine Bernard, Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Charlotte-Rose de La Force, Marie-Jeanne L’Hériter de Villandon, and Henriette-Julie de Murat. Also included are two critical texts: one praising the conte de fées and the other denouncing it.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Enchanted Eloquence: Fairy Tales by Seventeenth-Century French Women Writers. To get started finding Enchanted Eloquence: Fairy Tales by Seventeenth-Century French Women Writers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 362

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

Release: 2011

ISBN: 0772720770

Description: In late seventeenth-century France, the conte de fées, or fairy tale, became a fashionable new genre. Although literary history has privileged Charles Perrault’s Mother Goose Tales, it was sophisticated and ironic women who not only inaugurated the vogue but also produced sixty-eight of the one hundred and twelve tales published from 1690 to 1709. These conteuses experimented with various forms of fiction and celebrated women’s writing, all the while criticizing the oppression of marriage and the social strictures placed upon women. This collection presents eight fairy tales (most never before translated into English) by the most prominent women authors: Catherine Bernard, Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy, Charlotte-Rose de La Force, Marie-Jeanne L’Hériter de Villandon, and Henriette-Julie de Murat. Also included are two critical texts: one praising the conte de fées and the other denouncing it.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Enchanted Eloquence: Fairy Tales by Seventeenth-Century French Women Writers. To get started finding Enchanted Eloquence: Fairy Tales by Seventeenth-Century French Women Writers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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