A Cross-Dressing Fairy Tale - Revision history

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	[http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/works/show/10304 ''The Story of the Marquise - Marquis de Banneville''], a short story that appeared anonymously in the ''Mercure Galant'' in 1695, offers a “happily ever after” unlike no other that gives rise to nuanced reflections on gender, sex and sexuality in ''Ancien régime'' France. The marriage of a beautiful marquise to a handsome marquis would be banal if not for the revelation on the wedding night that, each unknown to the other, the marquise is in fact a man and the marquis a woman. The paternity (or maternity) of the tale itself is also shrouded in mystery as two recent critical editions differ radically in their attribution. Jacques Chupeau (1997) ascribes the story solely to a well-known transvestite of the time, [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/4222 François Timoléon, abbé de Choisy] while Joan DeJean (2004) considers it to be a collaboration between de Choisy, Charles Perrault and Perrault’s niece, [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/348 Marie-Jeanne l’Héritier] – herself the author of a number of fairy tales. The paratext identifies the author as a woman, the narrator takes on an explicitly female voice and the ostensible target audience is comprised of young women under 20 years of age. In this paper, after a review of the question of authorship and a contextualization (using the SATOR database) particularly of men dressing as women in seventeenth-century French literature, I will look at transvestism and the representation of gender in this astoundingly rich short story. <br><br>		[http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/works/show/10304 ''The Story of the Marquise - Marquis de Banneville''], a short story that appeared anonymously in the ''Mercure Galant'' in 1695, offers a “happily ever after” unlike no other that gives rise to nuanced reflections on gender, sex and sexuality in ''Ancien régime'' France. The marriage of a beautiful marquise to a handsome marquis would be banal if not for the revelation on the wedding night that, each unknown to the other, the marquise is in fact a man and the marquis a woman. The paternity (or maternity) of the tale itself is also shrouded in mystery as two recent critical editions differ radically in their attribution. Jacques Chupeau (1997) ascribes the story solely to a well-known transvestite of the time, [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/4222 François Timoléon, abbé de Choisy] while Joan DeJean (2004) considers it to be a collaboration between de Choisy, Charles Perrault and Perrault’s niece, [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/348 Marie-Jeanne l’Héritier] – herself the author of a number of fairy tales. The paratext identifies the author as a woman, the narrator takes on an explicitly female voice and the ostensible target audience is comprised of young women under 20 years of age. In this paper, after a review of the question of authorship and a contextualization (using the SATOR database) particularly of men dressing as women in seventeenth-century French literature, I will look at transvestism and the representation of gender in this astoundingly rich short story. <br><br>

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		+	[http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/works/show/10304 ''The Story of the Marquise - Marquis de Banneville''], a short story that appeared anonymously in the ''Mercure Galant'' in 1695, offers a “happily ever after” unlike no other that gives rise to nuanced reflections on gender, sex and sexuality in ''Ancien régime'' France. The marriage of a beautiful marquise to a handsome marquis would be banal if not for the revelation on the wedding night that, each unknown to the other, the marquise is in fact a man and the marquis a woman. The paternity (or maternity) of the tale itself is also shrouded in mystery as two recent critical editions differ radically in their attribution. Jacques Chupeau (1997) ascribes the story solely to a well-known transvestite of the time, [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/4222 François Timoléon, abbé de Choisy] while Joan DeJean (2004) considers it to be a collaboration between de Choisy, Charles Perrault and Perrault’s niece, [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/348 Marie-Jeanne l’Héritier] – herself the author of a number of fairy tales. The paratext identifies the author as a woman, the narrator takes on an explicitly female voice and the ostensible target audience is comprised of young women under 20 years of age. In this paper, after a review of the question of authorship and a contextualization (using the SATOR database) particularly of men dressing as women in seventeenth-century French literature, I will look at transvestism and the representation of gender in this astoundingly rich short story. <br><br>

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A Cross-Dressing Fairy Tale - Revision history

AKulsdom at 12:07, 19 September 2012

SvDijk at 23:00, 9 February 2011

SvDijk: New page: __NOEDITSECTION__ == Daniel Maher == ''Abstract:'' SvD, February 2011 *Conferences > [http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/NE...

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*Conferences > [http://www.womenwriters.nl/index.php/NE...