Title Writing the landscape exposing nature in French women's fiction 1789-1815 / Christie Margrave

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : Legenda, an imprint of the Modern Humanities Research Association, 2019 ©2019

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction : A landscape of one's own -- Landscapes of love and liberty : debates regarding marriage -- Landscapes of loss : communicating maternal grief and guilt -- Landscapes of rebellion : natural madhouses -- Landscapes of autonomy and escape : female power in death -- Writing the landscape : the Ossianic north and the debate over women's writing and education -- Conclusion : Reclaiming a space for women's writing Summary "Women novelists were among the most popular authors of the First Republic and First Empire, yet they are frequently overlooked in favor of their canonical male counterparts. Their penchant for sentimental novels has led some later critics to take their writing at face value as apolitical and domestic, at odds with France's violent convulsions. Futhermore, their carefully crafted presentation of natural settings has, thus far, been dismissed completely. Yet, as Christie Margrave shows, the natural landscape was far from being a casually chosen backdrop for writers such as Cottin, Genlis, Krüdener, Souza, and Staël. Rather, the 'escape into nature' given to their female protagonists was a means to expose and confront the everyday reality and emotional suffering faced by women in the Revolutionary decade and Napoleonic Empire. By highlighting self-expression, and by celebrating the figure of the melancholic wanderer, the social misfit, or the visionary, in the setting of an often tempestuous Nature, they also exerted substancial influence on the literary Romanticism which was soon to capture the European imagination"--Back cover Subject French fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism French fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism French fiction -- 18th century -- Themes, motives French fiction -- 19th century -- Themes, motives Nature in literature. French fiction French fiction -- Themes, motives French fiction -- Women authors Nature in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Modern Humanities Research Association, sponsoring body. ISBN 9781781884362 1781884366

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