| Preface |
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13 | (3) |
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16 | (9) |
| 1: Politics, Gender, and Cultural Change |
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From Feudal to Early Modern |
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25 | (6) |
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31 | (3) |
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Women, Class, and Consolidation of the Public Sphere |
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34 | (3) |
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37 | (3) |
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Women and Cultural Change in Seventeenth-Century France |
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40 | (10) |
| 2: Love Orders Chaos: Madeleine de Scudéry's Clélie, Histoire Romaine |
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50 | (41) |
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51 | (4) |
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55 | (4) |
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59 | (3) |
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The Carte de Tendre, or Ordering the Individual |
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62 | (15) |
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77 | (14) |
| 3: Adults at Play: Les Chroniques des Samedis de Mademoiselle de Scudéry |
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91 | (30) |
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93 | (11) |
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104 | (17) |
| 4: Boileau and Perrault: The Public Sphere and Female Folly |
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121 | (44) |
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122 | (6) |
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128 | (2) |
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130 | (7) |
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137 | (2) |
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From"Griselidis" to the Apologie |
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139 | (8) |
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The Abjectification of Women in the Tales |
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147 | (4) |
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151 | (4) |
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The Strange Case of Mr. and Mrs. Bluebeard |
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155 | (10) |
| 5: The Tyranny of Patriarchs in L'Histoire d'Hypolite, Comte de Duglas |
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165 | (36) |
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Historical House of Mirrors |
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167 | (3) |
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Political Tyranny, or the Count's Tale |
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170 | (4) |
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Adventurers, Lovers, and Traitors |
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174 | (3) |
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Familial Tyranny, or the Story of Julie |
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177 | (8) |
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Perspectives on Forced Marriage |
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185 | (3) |
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188 | (8) |
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Challenging the Wisdom of Women Writers |
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196 | (5) |
| 6: Fairy Tales and Mondanité |
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201 | (39) |
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Intertextualities: Riding Hoods and Pumpkins |
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202 | (2) |
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Peasants, Nobles, and Mésalliance |
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204 | (5) |
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Women, Power, and Knowledge |
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209 | (7) |
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216 | (7) |
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223 | (4) |
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Inscriptions of Versailles |
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227 | (3) |
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230 | (10) |
| Afterword |
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240 | (4) |
| Notes |
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244 | (23) |
| Works Cited |
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267 | (13) |
| Index |
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