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Making the Marvelous - Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, Henriette-Julie de Murat, and the Literary Representation of the Decorative Arts (Hardcover)
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Making the Marvelous - Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy, Henriette-Julie de Murat, and the Literary Representation of the Decorative Arts (Hardcover)
Series: Early Modern Cultural Studies
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At a moment when France was coming to new prominence in the
production of furniture and fashion, the fairy tales of
Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy (1652-1705) and Henriette-Julie de Murat
(1670-1716) gave pride of place to richly detailed descriptions of
palaces, gardens, clothing, and toys. Through close readings of
these authors' descriptive prose, Rori Bloom shows how these
practitioners of a supposedly minor genre made a major contribution
as chroniclers and critics of the decorative arts in Old Regime
France. Identifying these authors' embrace of the pretty and the
playful as a response to a frequent critique of fairy tales as
childish and feminine, Making the Marvelous demonstrates their
integration of artisan's work, child's play, and the lady's
toilette into a complex vision of creativity. D'Aulnoy and Murat
changed the stakes of the fairy tale, Bloom argues: instead of
inviting their readers to marvel at the magic that changes rags to
riches, they enjoined them to acknowledge the skill that transforms
raw materials into beautiful works of art.
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