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OverviewGabrielle-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 Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gabrielle–suzan Barbot De Ville , Aurora Wolfgang , Aurora WolfgangPublisher: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Imprint: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Volume: 569 Dimensions: Width: 15.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.352kg ISBN: 9780866986274ISBN 10: 0866986278 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 18 February 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 La Belle et la Bête and “The Other Voice” 1 Life and Works of Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve 2 The Literary Fairy Tale and Women Writers 20 A Young Woman’s Coming-of-Age in Eighteenth-Century France 29 Sex and Violence 30 Tenderness 32 Desire 33 The Wedding Night 36 Powerful Women: Fairies, Queens, and Amazons 38 Beauty: The Heroic and Worldly Woman 41 The Fairy as Author 43 Fairy Helpers 45 Fairies Behaving Badly 48 Weak Men: The Beast, the Merchant, and the King 51 Two Meanings of the Beast: The Monstrosity of Body and Mind 54 Exotic Destinations and Marvelous Lands 56 The La Rochelle-Saint-Domingue Connection 58 Fortunes Lost and Fortunes Gained 61 “Everything exudes joy and magnificence” 63 The Invisible Labor of Magnificence 64 The Afterlife of La Belle et la Bête 68 Note on the Translation 71 The Young American Girl and Tales at Sea by Madame de *** 73 Dedication to Madame Feydeau de Marville 75 Preface 76 Sailing to the New World 77 Story of the Beauty and the Beast 89 Story of the Beast 138 Story of the Lady Fairy 151 Bibliography 173 Index 183ReviewsAurora Wolfgang presents Anglophone readers with the opportunity to examine the original version of the (now) popularized tale of Beauty and the Beast, published in 1740 by an important but little understood woman writer of eighteenth-century France, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. Wolfgang's volume includes unique content never translated before: the tale's original frame, dedication, preface, and, perhaps most intriguingly, the insertion of erotic passages taken out by most of the previous translations and editions. It offers in addition a biographical account of Villeneuve, and a historical overview of the fairy tale as a genre developed largely by women writers of seventeenth-century France. --Marianne Legault, Associate Professor of French, University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus Aurora Wolfgang presents Anglophone readers with the opportunity to examine the original version of the (now) popularized tale of Beauty and the Beast, published in 1740 by an important but little understood woman writer of eighteenth-century France, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. Wolfgang's volume includes unique content never translated before: the tale's original frame, dedication, preface, and, perhaps most intriguingly, the insertion of erotic passages taken out by most of the previous translations and editions. It offers in addition a biographical account of Villeneuve, and a historical overview of the fairy tale as a genre developed largely by women writers of seventeenth-century France. --Marianne Legault, Associate Professor of French, University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus Author InformationAurora 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’Honnête Femme: The Respectable Woman in Society and the New Collection of Letters and Responses by Contemporary Women (2014). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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