Enchanted Eloquence: Fairy Tales by Seventeenth-Century French Women Writers Volume 9

This is a superb book on all levels. The translations of the tales are excellent. The research is impeccable. The introduction and notes are highly informative. Most important, Lewis Seifert and Domna Stanton have focused on unusual fairy tales that have never been translated before and are seminal for understanding the development of the literary fairy tale as genre. French women writers played a central role in the institutionalization of a literary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0772720770
• ISBN13: 9780772720771
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Iter Press
• Length: 362 Pages