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Table of contents for Fairy tales, sexuality, and gender in France, 1690-1715 : nostalgic utopias / Lewis C. Seifert.

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Introduction
Part I. Marvellous Storytelling: 1. Marvellous realities: toward an understanding of the merveilleux
 2. Reading (and) the ironies of the marvellous
3. The marvellous in context: the place of the contes de fe;es in late seventeenth-century France
Part II. Marvellous Desires: 4. Quests for love: visions of sexuality
5. Fictions of transcendence: (de)mystifications of masculinity
6. Imagining femininity: binarity and beyond
Afterword.

Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Fairy tales France History and criticism, French fiction 17th century History and criticism, French fiction 18th century History and criticism, Sex in literature, Gender identity in literature, Marvelous, The, in literature, Utopias in literature