Author:
Ray, Marcie, author.
ImprintRochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2020.
Imprint2020
Descriptionxi, 191 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
Note:From Platée's Frog-Like Flirt to Pompadour's Yellow Skin: Correcting the Coquette -- A "Mistress of Her Own Affairs": Inhibiting the Widow's (Sexual) Independence -- The Price of Independence: Women Seeking Separations -- "Everywhere Our Hearts Are in Danger": Cupid's Triumph and the Decline of the Indifferent Mistress.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-178) and index.
Note:"A revelatory study of how composers and dramatists of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France criticized and trivialized independent women in their portrayals of them in works of theater and opera."-- Provided by publisher.
