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Curiosities and wonders --- Supernatural --- Marvelous, The --- Natural history --- Curiosités et merveilles --- Surnaturel --- Merveilleux --- Sciences naturelles --- Early works to 1800 --- Ouvrages avant 1800

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Between 1690 and 1715, well over one hundred literary fairy tales appeared in France, two-thirds of them written by women. This 1996 book explores why fashionable adults were attracted to this new literary genre and, integrating socio-historical, structuralist, and post-structuralist approaches, considers how it became a medium for reconceiving literary and historical discourses of sexuality and gender. The first part of the book considers how the marvellous is used to legitimize the genre, to exemplify theories of 'modern' culture, and to reaffirm women's potential as writers. The second part examines how specific groups of tales both reiterate and unsettle late seventeenth-century discourses of love, masculinity and femininity through conventions such as the romantic quest, the marriage closure, chivalric heroes and good and evil fairies.

Fairy tales --- French fiction --- Sex in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Marvelous, The, in literature. --- Utopias in literature. --- Contes de fées --- Roman français --- Sexualité dans la littérature --- Identité sexuelle dans la littérature --- Merveilleux dans la littérature --- Utopies dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- -French fiction --- -Gender identity in literature --- Marvelous, The, in literature --- Sex in literature --- Utopias in literature --- Utopian literature --- Magic realism (Literature) --- French literature --- Fairytales --- Children's stories --- Tales --- History and criticism --- Contes de fées --- Roman français --- Sexualité dans la littérature --- Identité sexuelle dans la littérature --- Merveilleux dans la littérature --- Utopies dans la littérature --- Gender identity in literature --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature

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Miracles. --- Theology, Doctrinal. --- 231.731 --- Miracles --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Christian doctrines --- Christianity --- Doctrinal theology --- Doctrines, Christian --- Dogmatic theology --- Fundamental theology --- Systematic theology --- Theology, Dogmatic --- Theology, Systematic --- Theology --- God --- Marvelous, The --- Miracle workers --- Spiritual healing --- Supernatural --- Wonderen. Bovennatuurlijke feiten --- Doctrines --- 231.731 Wonderen. Bovennatuurlijke feiten