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The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville. By Francois-Timoleon de Choisy, Marie-Jeanne L'Heritier, and Charles Perrault. Trans. Steven Rendall. Intro. Joan DeJean. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2004. xvii + 66 pp.
The publication in 2004 of the French text Histoire de la Marquise-Marquis de Banneville and its English translation, The Story of the Marquise-Marquis de Banneville, is another worthy contribution to the MLA Series Texts and Translations that has made accessible many early modern texts for the college classroom. This text and its translation will not only be useful to scholars and students of French literature, bur will appeal as well to those in gender studies and fairy-tale studies.
In this text the hero's mother dresses him as a girl from birth on, to spare him the dangers of war, which took her husband from her. Cross-dressing in fairy tales usually takes the form of a woman donning man's clothing in order to go to war, as in Mme d'Aulnoy's "Belle-Belle, ou le chevalier Fortune," as well as in Marie-Jeanne Lheritier's own "Marmoisan, ou l'Innocente Tromperie." While few, if any, examples...
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