Forgotten Fairy Tales of French Salon Women Writers

Authors

  • Lilijana Burcar Filozofska fakulteta v Ljubljani, Univerza v Ljubljani

Keywords:

17th-century French salons, women writers, The Discreet Princess, Starlight, The Bee and the Orange Tree, Prince Dwarf

Abstract

The first literary tales emerged out of the 17th-century French salons, run by high-ranking aristocratic women, and served as a political manifesto. The salon women writers used the genre they created to promote a proto-feminist agenda. This included a rebellion against forced marriages and a withdrawal from the institution of marriage that circumscribed their freedom of movement, love, self-sufficiency and the right to their own literary voice. The female salon writers bestowed these rights on their fairy-tale female protagonists, creating a proto-feminist utopian world that sank into oblivion upon the authorsʼ exclusion from the canon.

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2020-07-14

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Burcar, L. (2020) “Forgotten Fairy Tales of French Salon Women Writers”, Slavistična revija, 68(2), pp. 197–210. Available at: https://srl.si/ojs/srl/article/view/3850 (Accessed: 18 July 2024).

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Vol. 68 No. 2 (2020)

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