| Description |
1 online resource (249 pages) |
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Romance studies |
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Penn State Romance studies.
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| Contents |
Innovation and education : historical contexts from the Belle Epoque -- Literary contexts : Bildungsroman, Erziehungsroman, Berufsroman -- Dreams and disappointments : women's education novels -- Cervelines : women scientists in novels of professional development -- Independantes : professional women writers -- The composite : women lawyers in Les dames du palais -- After the war |
| Summary |
Annotation In Career Stories, Juliette Rogers considers a body of largely unexamined novels from the Belle poque that defy the usual categories allowed the female protagonist of the period. While most literary studies of the Belle poque (1880-1914) focus on the conventional housewife or harlot distinction for female protagonists, the heroines investigated in Career Stories are professional lawyers, doctors, teachers, writers, archeologists, and scientists. In addition to the one well-known woman writer from the Belle poque, Colette, this study will expand our knowledge of relatively unknown authors, including Gabrielle Reval, Marcelle Tinayre, and Colette Yver, who actively participated in contemporary debates on women's possible roles in the public domain and in professional careers during this period. Career Stories seeks to understand early twentieth century France by examining novels written about professional women, bourgeois and working-class heroines, and the particular dilemmas that they faced. This book contributes a new facet to literary histories of the Belle poque: a subgenre of the Bildungsroman that flourished briefly during the first decade of the twentieth century in France. Rogers terms this subgenre the female Berufsroman, or novel of women's professional development. Career Stories will change the way we think about the Belle poque and the interwar period in French literary history, because these women writers and their novels changed the direction that fiction writing would take in post-World War I France |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-238) and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
French fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Women and literature -- France -- History -- 20th century
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Women and literature -- France -- History -- 19th century
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Professions in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
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French fiction
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French fiction -- Women authors
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Professions in literature
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Women and literature
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France
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780271034973 |
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0271034971 |
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9780271054797 |
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0271054794 |
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0271049820 |
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9780271049823 |
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9780271021225 |
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0271021225 |
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0271032685 |
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9780271032689 |
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