Beauty and the beast : the original story / Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve ; edited and translated by Aurora Wolfgang.

Author: Villeneuve, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot Gallon, dame de, approximately 1695-1755, author.

ImprintToronto, Ontario : Iter Press ; Tempe, Arizona : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2020.

Descriptionxvii, 191 pages ; 23 cm

Note:Introduction -- La belle et la bête and "the other voice" -- Life and works of Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve -- The literary fairy tale and women writers -- A young woman's coming-of-age in eighteenth-century France -- Powerful women: fairies, ueens, and Amazons -- Weak men: the beast, the merchant, and the king -- Exotic destinations and marvelous lands -- The afterlife of La belle et la bête -- Note on the translation -- The young American girl and Tales at sea by Madame de ***.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index.

Note:"English translation of the original version of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, written in the mid-eighteenth century by the French noblewoman Madame de Villeneuve, whose authorship was forgotten as the tale was elaborated and transformed over the next 250 years."-- Provided by publisher.

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