Description
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, the little-known author of Beauty and the Beast, was a successful novelist and fairytale writer in mid eighteenth-century France. While her novels are rarely read today, her compelling fairytale has become universally recognized. This edition is the first integral English translation of Villeneuve's original tale. The introduction seeks to illuminate the publication of Beauty and the Beast in its historical and literary context, and brings to life the dynamic female characters that first populated this enchanting tale: the courageous Beauty, the Fairy Queen, the Amazon Queen, the Lady Fairy, and the powerful, but mischievous elderly fairy. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series volume 74
Author: Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot De Villeneuve
Publisher: Iter Press
Published: 02/18/2020
Pages: 191
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780866986274
ISBN10: 0866986278
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Folklore & Mythology
- Literary Criticism | European | French
- Literary Criticism | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
Author: Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot De Villeneuve
Publisher: Iter Press
Published: 02/18/2020
Pages: 191
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780866986274
ISBN10: 0866986278
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Folklore & Mythology
- Literary Criticism | European | French
- Literary Criticism | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology
About the Author
Aurora Wolfgang is Professor of French at Michigan State University. She is author of Gender and Voice in the French Novel, 1730-1782 (2004) and, in this series, edited and translated with Sharon Diane Nell, Jacques Du Bosc's L'HonnĂȘte Femme: The Respectable Woman in Society and the New Collection of Letters and Responses by Contemporary Women (2014).