Enchanted Eloquence: Fairy Tales by Seventeenth-Century French Women Writers by Lewis C. Seifert, Domna C. Stanton

Enchanted Eloquence: Fairy Tales by Seventeenth-Century French Women Writers

Lewis C. Seifert, Domna C. Stanton

362 pages first pub 2011 (view editions)

challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 th...

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