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Making the Marvelous: Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, Henriette-Julie de Murat, and the Literary Representation of the Decorative Arts

Making the Marvelous: Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, Henriette-Julie de Murat, and the Literary Representation of the Decorative Arts - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Rori BloomSeries:Early Modern Cultural StudiesPublish date:2022-06-01Pages:250
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496222671ISBN-10:1496222679UPC:9781496222671Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:European, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologyBook Topic:FrenchSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.1817Product ID:SC4RSVKHZ0
At a moment when France was coming to new prominence in the production of furniture and fashion, the fairy tales of Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy (1652-1705) and Henriette-Julie de Murat (1670-1716) gave pride of place to richly detailed descriptions of palaces, gardens, clothing, and toys. Through close readings of these authors' descriptive prose, Rori Bloom shows how these practitioners of a supposedly minor genre made a major contribution as chroniclers and critics of the decorative arts in Old Regime France. Identifying these authors' embrace of the pretty and the playful as a response to a frequent critique of fairy tales as childish and feminine, Making the Marvelous demonstrates their integration of artisan's work, child's play, and the lady's toilette into a complex vision of creativity. D'Aulnoy and Murat changed the stakes of the fairy tale, Bloom argues: instead of inviting their readers to marvel at the magic that changes rags to riches, they enjoined them to acknowledge the skill that transforms raw materials into beautiful works of art.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496222671ISBN-10:1496222679UPC:9781496222671Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:European, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & MythologyBook Topic:FrenchSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.1817Product ID:SC4RSVKHZ0
Rori Bloom is an associate professor of French at the University of Florida. She is the author of Man of Quality, Man of Letters: The Abbé Prévost between Novel and Newspaper.

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