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Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales. Bronwyn Reddan. Women and Gender...

Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales. Bronwyn Reddan. Women and Gender...

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Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales. Bronwyn Reddan. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. xx + 234 pp. $65

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Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales. Bronwyn Reddan. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. xx + 234 pp. $65

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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Renaissance quarterly, 2023, Vol.76 (1), p.334-335

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English

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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In Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century France, however, Bronwyn Reddan questions the monolithic representation of fairy-tale love, especially in the works of seventeenth-century women writers, or conteuses. In “Courtship, Consent and Declarations of Love” (chapter 3), Reddan concludes that although conteuses actively promote the freedom...

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Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales. Bronwyn Reddan. Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. xx + 234 pp. $65

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2801901580

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2801901580

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0034-4338

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1935-0236

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10.1017/rqx.2023.181

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