Pregnant Fictions: Childbirth and the Fairy Tale in Early-Modern France

by Holly Tucker

Pregnant Fictions explores the complex role of pregnancy in early-modern tale-telling and considers how stories of childbirth were used to rethink gendered "truths" at a key moment in the history of ideas.

How male medical authorities and female literary authors struggled to describe the inner workings of the unseen--and competed to shape public understanding of it--is the focus of this engaging work by Holly Tucker. In illuminating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814330428
• ISBN13: 9780814330425
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.2"