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Histoire de la Marquise-Marquis de Banneville (Texts and Translations) (French Edition)
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Product Description The beautiful Marquise de Banneville meets a handsome marquis, and they fall in love. But the young woman is actually a young man (brought up as a girl and completely in the dark about her�or his�true sex), while the marquis is actually a young woman who likes to cross-dress. Will they live happily ever after? In the introduction, Joan DeJean presents the fascinating puzzle of authorship of this lighthearted gender-bending tale written in the late seventeenth century in France. Was it Fran�ois-Timol�on de Choisy, an abbot who was happiest in drag? Marie-Jeanne L�H�ritier, an outspoken defender of women�s writing of her day? Or Charles Perrault, L�H�ritier�s uncle and the famous author of such fairy tales as �Sleeping Beauty�? DeJean argues that the tale was a collaboration of all three and discusses the permeable borderline between masculinity and femininity, transvestism, and tolerance�then and now. Review �The text has many interesting applications in the undergraduate and graduate classrooms. The crossed-dress life that the characters share offers a fascinating, unconventional approach to court culture of seventeenth-century France, as well as to thorny issues of contemporary society. Joan DeJean provides an excellent introduction that places the appeal of the text firmly within a historical perspective.� �Harriet Stone, Washington University About the Author Fran�ois-Timol�on de Choisy was a French author. He was an influential figure in the seventeenth-century French ecclesiastical community. Marie-Jeanne L'H�ritierwas a French writer in the seventeenth century.L'H�ritier was a defender of women�s writing and a significant writer in the fairy tale genre. Charles Perrault was a seventeenth-century French writer and a member of the Acad�mie fran�aise. Perrault�s stories have been influential in developing the fairy tale as a literary genre. Joan DeJean�s books reflect her areas of research: the history of women's writing in France�(Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France); the history of sexuality�(Fictions of Sappho, 1546�1937); the development of the novel�(Literary Fortifications;�Libertine Strategies); and the cultural history and the material culture of late 17th- and early 18th-century France�(Ancients against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Si�cle;�The Essence of Style;�The Age of Comfort).
