List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Note on Sources and Translations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reimagining Fairy-Tale Love
Part 1. Formation of a Literary Emotional Community
1. The Creation of a Female Literary Community
2. A Shared Vocabulary of Love
Part 2. Conversations about Love
3. Courtship, Consent, and Declarations of Love
4. Marriage, Gift-Giving, and the Obligation of Love
5. Love after Marriage: Moral Lessons and Unhappy Endings
Conclusion: Truth Finding in Fairy Tales
Appendix 1: French Fairy Tales, 1690–1709
Appendix 2: Tales Produced by the Conteuses, 1690–1709
Appendix 3: Publication Details of the First Known Editions of the
Conteuses’ Tales
Appendix 4: Publication Details of Literary Works by the
Conteuses
Appendix 5: Declarations of Love by Heroes
Appendix 6: Declarations of Love by Heroines
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Bronwyn Reddan is an honorary fellow in the School of
Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of
Melbourne.
"Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales
is a notable addition to scholarship of the
conteuses' literary tales and provides a multidimensional view
of the gendered experience of love and of the trope of the
happily-ever-after."—Adrion Dula, Journal of American
Folklore
“In recent years scholars have ‘rediscovered’ the unique
contributions made by women writers to the development of the
literary fairy tale in France, and one of the most thorough and
perceptive studies is Bronwyn Reddan’s Love, Power, and Gender in
Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales. . . . Reddan’s superb work
gives full voice to tales that are still important in our own
day.”—Jack Zipes, professor emeritus of German and comparative
literature at the University of Minnesota
“With this important book, Bronwyn Reddan invites us to take
seriously the ways in which the seventeenth-century French fairy
tales written by women revise the codes of love and gender of
their day. Emotions have a complex history, and fairy tales reflect
that history in great detail. Reddan urges us to reconsider our
preconceptions about fairy tales, love, gender, marriage, and
power. And more fundamentally, she allows us to see that a genre
too often considered to be simplistic and trivial is in fact
diverse and profound.”—Lewis C. Seifert, professor of French
studies at Brown University
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