Appendix 6: Declarations of Love by Heroines. Part 1. Formation of a Literary Emotional Community -- Creation of a Female Literary Community -- Shared Vocabulary of Love -- Part 2. Conversations about Love -- Courtship, Consent, and Declarations of Love -- Marriage, Gift-Giving, and the Obligation of Love -- 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.
Summary:
"Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth-Century French Fairy Tales questions the idealization of fairy-tale romance as the ultimate happy ending by showing how the women writers who dominated the first French fairy-tale vogue, the conteuses, used the genre to critique the power dynamics of courtship and marriage"-- Provided by publisher
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