Gender, Class, and Human/Non-Human Fluidity in Théodore and Hippolyte Cogniards’ féerie, The White Cat

Gender, Class, and Human/Non-Human Fluidity in Théodore and Hippolyte Cogniards’ féerie, The White Cat

The Frères Cogniard produced immensely popular vaudeville féeries in the nineteenth century and among them most popular was The White Cat (1852), which grafts two tales together by Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy: “The White Cat” and “Belle-Belle, or the chevalier Fortuné.” The féerie foregrounds gender, c...

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Autor principal: Duggan Anne E.
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:c8f8a14103e348e2b597d441cdfa5f502021-12-05T14:10:45ZGender, Class, and Human/Non-Human Fluidity in Théodore and Hippolyte Cogniards’ féerie, The White Cat2451-347410.1515/culture-2020-0132https://doaj.org/article/c8f8a14103e348e2b597d441cdfa5f502021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2020-0132https://doaj.org/toc/2451-3474The Frères Cogniard produced immensely popular vaudeville féeries in the nineteenth century and among them most popular was The White Cat (1852), which grafts two tales together by Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy: “The White Cat” and “Belle-Belle, or the chevalier Fortuné.” The féerie foregrounds gender, class, human/thing, and species fluidity, which undermines hierarchies supported by dichotomies that in very similar ways privilege men over women, the upperclass over lowerclass, persons over things, and human animals over non-human animals. The essay traces these different forms of fluidity, examining the role of marvelous in general and metamorphosis in particular in problematizing normative structures of identity and revealing their arbitrary nature.Duggan Anne E.De Gruyterarticleaulnoymarie-catherine d’théodore and hippolyte cogniardgenderclassféerieSocial sciences (General)H1-99ENOpen Cultural Studies, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 208-220 (2021)
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marie-catherine d’
théodore and hippolyte cogniard
gender
class
féerie
Social sciences (General)
H1-99
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marie-catherine d’
théodore and hippolyte cogniard
gender
class
féerie
Social sciences (General)
H1-99
Duggan Anne E.
Gender, Class, and Human/Non-Human Fluidity in Théodore and Hippolyte Cogniards’ féerie, The White Cat
description The Frères Cogniard produced immensely popular vaudeville féeries in the nineteenth century and among them most popular was The White Cat (1852), which grafts two tales together by Marie-Catherine d’Aulnoy: “The White Cat” and “Belle-Belle, or the chevalier Fortuné.” The féerie foregrounds gender, class, human/thing, and species fluidity, which undermines hierarchies supported by dichotomies that in very similar ways privilege men over women, the upperclass over lowerclass, persons over things, and human animals over non-human animals. The essay traces these different forms of fluidity, examining the role of marvelous in general and metamorphosis in particular in problematizing normative structures of identity and revealing their arbitrary nature.
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title Gender, Class, and Human/Non-Human Fluidity in Théodore and Hippolyte Cogniards’ féerie, The White Cat
title_short Gender, Class, and Human/Non-Human Fluidity in Théodore and Hippolyte Cogniards’ féerie, The White Cat
title_full Gender, Class, and Human/Non-Human Fluidity in Théodore and Hippolyte Cogniards’ féerie, The White Cat
title_fullStr Gender, Class, and Human/Non-Human Fluidity in Théodore and Hippolyte Cogniards’ féerie, The White Cat
title_full_unstemmed Gender, Class, and Human/Non-Human Fluidity in Théodore and Hippolyte Cogniards’ féerie, The White Cat
title_sort gender, class, and human/non-human fluidity in théodore and hippolyte cogniards’ féerie, the white cat
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