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The original edition of Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies, published in 2005, was a pathbreaking work of early modern literary history, exploring women’s role in the rise of the fairy tale and their use of this new genre to carve out roles as major contributors to the literature of their time. This new edition, with a new introduction and a forward by acclaimed scholar Allison Stedman, emphasizes the scholarly legacy of Anne Duggan’s original work, and its continuing field-changing implications. The book studies the works of two of the most prolific seventeenth-century women writers, Madeleine de Scudéry and Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy. Analyzing their use of the novel, the chronicle, and the fairy tale, Duggan examines how Scudéry and d'Aulnoy responded to and participated in the changes of their society, but from different generational and ideological positions. This study also takes into account the history of the salon, an unofficial institution that served as a locus for elite women's participation in the cultural and literary production of their society. In order to highlight the debates that emerged with the increased participation of aristocratic women within the public sphere, the book also explores the responses of two academicians, Nicolas Boileau and Charles Perrault.

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Author:   Anne E. Duggan
Publisher:   University of Delaware Press
Imprint:   University of Delaware Press
Edition:   Second Edition, Second Edition, Revised and Updated
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.467kg
ISBN:  

9781644532157

ISBN 10:   1644532158
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   27 August 2021
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments                                                                                                                  Foreword by Allison Stedman                                                                                                   Introduction to the Second Edition                                                                                        Preface                                                                                                                     Chapter 1: Politics, Gender, and Cultural Change                                                                                    Chapter 2: Love Orders Chaos:  Madeleine de Scudéry’s Clélie, Histoire Romaine                               Chapter 3: Adults at Play: Les Chronqiues des Samedis de Mademoiselle de Scudéry                           Chapter 4: Boileau and Perrault: The Public Sphere and Female Folly                                                   Chapter 5: The Tyranny of Patriarchs in L’Histoire d’Hypolite, Comte de Duglas                                 Chapter 6: Fairy Tales and Mondanité                                                                                                     Afterword                                                                                                                                Works Cited                                                                                                                            Index                                                                                                                                      

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ANNE E. DUGGAN is a professor of French in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Her most recent books include Queer Enchantments: Gender, Sexuality, and Class in the Fairy-Tale Cinema of Jacques Demy and Folktales and Fairy Tales: Traditions and Texts from around the World (4 vols. co-edited with Donald Haase, with Helen Callow). 

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