The Fairy as Hero(ine) and Author: Representations of Female Power in Murat's "Le Turbot"

Henriette-Julie de Castelnau de Murat's "Le Turbot" (1699) is remarkable because its fairy Turbodine is both the tale's true hero and heroine and its author, a character both devel- oping the plot—her own and others'—and narrating it. Turbodine is the protagonist, and her he...

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Main Author: Melissa A. Hofmann
Language:English
Published: Wayne State University Press 2015
Subjects:
75058:Murat
Henriette-Julie de Castelnau
comtesse de
1670-1716:Personal Name
919916:Fairy tales:Topic
1177270:Women authors
French:Topic
919881:Fairies in literature:Topic
955621:Heroines in literature:Topic
955583:Heroes in literature:Topic
1114649:Sex role in literature:Topic
1074235:Power (Social sciences) in literature:Topic
822482:Authorship in literature:Topic
Turbot
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.17613/xa5j-t673
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Summary:Henriette-Julie de Castelnau de Murat's "Le Turbot" (1699) is remarkable because its fairy Turbodine is both the tale's true hero and heroine and its author, a character both devel- oping the plot—her own and others'—and narrating it. Turbodine is the protagonist, and her heroic male power, integral to her authorship of the plot, is both highlighted and disguised by the text. Her power and its limitations are representative of the simultaneous influence and marginality of the woman writer of 1690s France.

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