Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-279) and index.
Contents:
Politics, gender, and cultural change -- Love orders chaos: Madeleine de Scudéry's Celélie, Histoire Romaine -- Adults at play: Les chroniques des Samedis de Mademoiselle de Scudéry -- Boileau and Perrault: the public sphere and female folly -- The tyranny of patriarchs in L'Histoire d'Hypolite, comte de Duglas -- Fairy tales and Mondanité.
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