BIBLIOGRAPHY

Seifert, Lewis C. “Marie-Catherine le Jumel de Barneville, Comtesse d'Aulnoy.” In French Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Source Book, edited by Eva Martin Satori, pp. 11-20. New York: Greenwood, 1991.

Gives a brief biography of d'Aulnoy and an overview of her works; lists major publications in French and English.

CRITICISM

Carpasso, Ruth Carver. “Madame d'Aulnoy and the Comedy of Transformation.” Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature 14, no. 27 (1987): 575-88.

Describes fanciful transformations as the center of d'Aulnoy's humor in her fairy tales, focusing on her use of animal characters.

DeGraff, Amy Vanderlyn. The Tower and the Well: A Psychological Interpretation of the Fairy Tales of Madame d'Aulnoy. Birmingham, Ala.: Summa Publications, 1984. 129 p.

Explicates d'Aulnoy's fairy tales according to theories of the unconscious and the maturation of the self.

Hannon, Patricia. “Feminine Voice and the Motivated Text: Madam D'Aulnoy and the Chevalier de Mailly.” Merveilles and Contes II, no. 1 (May 1988): 13-24.

Interprets d'Aulnoy's tale “La biche au bois” as the story of its heroine claiming her voice.

———. “Out of the Kingdom: Madame d'Aulnoy's Finette Cendron.” In Actes de Las Vegas: Théorie dramatique, Théophile de Viau, Les Contes de Fées, edited by Marie-France Hilgar, pp. 201-08. Paris: Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, 1991.

Compares male-authored and female-authored tales to suggest that female authors create more complex, self-reflexive narratives that sometimes critique the assumptions of the fairy tale genre.

Harries, Elizabeth Wanning. Twice Upon a Time: Women Writers and the History of the Fairy Tale. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. 216 p.

Traces the development of the fairy tale in the tradition of French conteuses, including discussion of d'Aulnoy.

McLeod, Glenda. “Writer of Fantasy: Madame d'Aulnoy.” In Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century, edited by Katharina M. Wilson and Frank J. Warnke, pp. 91-9. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1989.

Gives a brief biography and summary of d'Aulnoy's works; also includes a translation of “The Bee and the Orange Tree.”

Palmer, Melvin D. “Madame d'Aulnoy and Cervantes.” Romance Notes 11, no. 3 (spring 1970): 595-98.

Asserts the influence of Cervantes's Don Quixote on d'Aulnoy's story Nouveau-gentilhomme bourgeois.

———. “Madame d'Aulnoy's Pseudo-Autobiographical Works on Spain.” Romanische Forschungen 83 (1971): 220-29.

Considers d'Aulnoy's memoirs in the context of evolving fictional genres, including the epistolary novel.

Seifert, Lewis. Fairy Tales, Sexuality, and Gender in France, 1690-1715: Nostalgic Utopias. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 276 p.

An often-cited study that lists d'Aulnoy as one of several writers during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries whose fairy tales were concerned with sexuality and gender.

Tucker, Holly. “Like Mother, Like Daughter: Maternal Cravings and Birthmarks in the Fairy Tales of Mme d'Aulnoy and Mlle de la Force.” In The Mother in/and French Literature, edited by Buford Norman, pp. 33-50. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000.

Discusses d'Aulnoy's “La chatte blanche” in a consideration of the reflection of contemporary beliefs about pregnancy and childbirth in women's fairy tales.