Document Type
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BL
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Record Number
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967406
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Doc. No
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b721776
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Main Entry
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Seifert, Lewis Carl.
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Title & Author
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Fairy tales, sexuality, and gender in France, 1690-1715 : : nostalgic utopias /\ Lewis C. Seifert.
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Publication Statement
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Cambridge [England] ;New York, N.Y. :: Cambridge University Press,, 1996.
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Series Statement
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Cambridge studies in French ;; 55
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Page. NO
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xii, 276 pages ;; 22 cm.
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ISBN
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052102627X
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: 052155005X
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: 9780521026277
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: 9780521550055
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-270) and index.
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Contents
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1. Marvelous realities: toward an understanding of the merveilleux -- 2. Reading (and) the ironies of the marvelous -- 3. The marvelous in context: the place of the contes de fees in late seventeenth-century France -- 4. Quests for love: visions of sexuality -- 5. (De)mystifications of masculinity: fictions of transcendence -- 6. Imagining femininity: binarity and beyond.
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Abstract
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Between 1690 and 1715, well over one hundred literary fairy tales appeared in France, two-thirds of them written by women. This book explores why fashionable adults were attracted to this new literary genre and considers how it became a medium for reconceiving literary and historical discourses of sexuality and gender. Integrating socio-historical, structuralist, and post-structuralist approaches, Seifert argues that these fairy tales use the "marvelous" (or supernatural) to mediate between conflicting cultural desires, particularly between nostalgia and utopian longings.
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Subject
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Fairy tales-- France-- History and criticism.
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French fiction-- 17th century-- History and criticism.
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French fiction-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Marvelous, The, in literature.
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Sex in literature.
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Utopias in literature.
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Contes de fées-- France-- Histoire et critique.
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Identité sexuelle dans la littérature.
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Merveilleux dans la littérature.
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Roman français-- 17e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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Roman français-- 18e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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Sexualité dans la littérature.
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18.25 French literature.
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Amour-- Dans la littérature.
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Contes de fées-- France-- Histoire.
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Contes français-- 17e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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Contes français-- 18e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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Fairy tales-- France-- History and criticism.
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Fairy tales.
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Französisch
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French fiction-- 17th century-- History and criticism.
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French fiction-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
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French fiction.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Geschlechterrolle
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Kunstmärchen
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Littérature française-- 17e siècle-- Thèmes, motifs.
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Littérature française-- 18e siècle-- Thèmes, motifs.
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Subject
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Märchen
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Marvelous, The, in literature.
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Marvelous, The, in literature.
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Sex in literature.
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Sex in literature.
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Sexualität
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Sexualité-- Dans la littérature.
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Utopias in literature.
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Subject
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Frans.
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Kunstsprookjes.
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Sekseverschillen.
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Seksualiteit.
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France.
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Subject
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Französisch.
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Dewey Classification
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398/.353
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LC Classification
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PQ637.F27S45 1996
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NLM classification
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18.25bcl
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IF 5950rvk
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IG 1711rvk
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IG 1792rvk
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