Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One From Platée’s Frog-Like Flirt to Pompadour’s Yellow Skin: Correcting the Coquette
- Chapter Two A “Mistress of Her Own Affairs”: Inhibiting the Widow’s (Sexual) Independence
- Chapter Three The Price of Independence: Women Seeking Separations
- Chapter Four “Everywhere Our Hearts Are in Danger”: Cupid’s Triumph and the Decline of the Indifferent Mistress
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One From Platée’s Frog-Like Flirt to Pompadour’s Yellow Skin: Correcting the Coquette
- Chapter Two A “Mistress of Her Own Affairs”: Inhibiting the Widow’s (Sexual) Independence
- Chapter Three The Price of Independence: Women Seeking Separations
- Chapter Four “Everywhere Our Hearts Are in Danger”: Cupid’s Triumph and the Decline of the Indifferent Mistress
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Coquettes, Wives, and WidowsGender Politics in French Baroque Opera and Theater, pp. i - vPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2020