Anne E. Duggan
Salonnières, Furies, and Fairies:
The Politics of Gender and Cultural Change in Absolutist France
Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005
288 pp.
ISBN 0-87413-897-3
Table des Matières:
Preface
1. Politics, Gender, and Cultural Change
From Feudal to Early Modern - Ennobling Education - Women, Class, and Consolidation of the Public Sphere - Signifying Distinction - Women and Cultural Change in Seventeenth-Century France
2. Love Orders Chaos: Madeleine de Scudéry's Clélie, Histoire Romaine
The Order of History - Redefining Glory - Fable versus History - The Carte de Tendre, or Ordering the Individual - Ordering the State
3. Adults at Play: Les Chroniques des Samedis
Salon as Game Space - The Value of Friendship
4. Boileau and Perrault: The Public Sphere and Female Folly
Mad Heroes - Precious Witches - Satire X - The Querelle - From "Griselidis" to the Apologie - The Abjectification of Women in the Tales - Disobedient Women - The Strange Case of Mr. and Mrs. Bluebeard
5. The Tyranny of Patriarchs in L'Histoire d'Hypolite, Comte de Duglas
Historical House of Mirrors - Political Tyranny, or the Count's Tale - Adventurers, Lovers, and Traitors - Familial Tyranny, or the Story of Julie - Perspectives on Forced Marriage - Of Bienséance - Challenging the Wisdom of Women Writers
6. Fairy Tales and Mondanité
Intertextualities: Riding Hoods and Pumpkins - Peasants, N0bles, and Mésalliance - Women, Power, and Knowledge - Spectacles and Mondanité - Opera and Fairy Tales - Inscriptions of Versailles - Fairies versus Furies
Afterword
Notes
Works Cited
Index
