JOURNAL ARTICLE

Beauty and the Beast: The Original Story by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (review).

  • Published In: Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2023, v. 56, n. 4. P. 640 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Lys, Charlotte Trinquet Du 3 of 3

Abstract

Wolfgang draws numerous parallels between seventeenth-century women's fairy tales and Villeneuve's, but also, and even more interestingly, with the I préciosité i and Madeleine de Scudéry's work. Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, Beauty and the Beast: The Original Story, translated by Aurora Wolfgang (Toronto: Iter Press, 2020). Wolfgang's edition will help remedy this absence in modern scholarship, as it shows that the tale was indeed vastly appreciated in Villeneuve's time and was the subject of several popular theatrical adaptations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (68). [Extracted from the article]

Additional Information

  • Source:Eighteenth-Century Studies. 2023/07, Vol. 56, Issue 4, p640
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:History
  • Publication Date:2023
  • ISSN:0013-2586
  • DOI:10.1353/ecs.2023.a900669
  • Accession Number:164584198
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