Women'S Writing In Nineteenth-Century France (Cambridge Studies In French): 65 (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 65) - Softcover

Finch, Alison

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521024544 ISBN 13: 9780521024549

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

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This is the most complete critical survey to date of women's literature in nineteenth-century France. Alison Finch's wide-ranging analysis of some 60 writers covers all genres at all levels, both popular and serious. Offering extensive reference features, the book represents an invaluable resource for all those studying French literature.

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'... lucid, nuanced and generous.' Anne Green, The Times Literary Supplement

' ... a very readable and immensely useful book.' Modern Language Review

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This is the most complete critical survey to date of women's literature in nineteenth-century France. Alison Finch's wide-ranging analysis of some 60 writers reflects the rich diversity of a century that begins with Mme de Staël's cosmopolitanism and ends with Rachilde's perverse eroticism. Finch's study brings out the contribution not only of major figures like George Sand but also of many other talented and important writers who have been unjustly rejected, including Flora Tristan, Claire de Duras and Delphine de Girardin. Her account opens new perspectives on the interchange between male and female authors and on women's literary traditions during the period. She discusses popular and serious writing: fiction, verse, drama, memoirs, journalism, feminist polemic, historiography, travelogues, children's tales, religious and political thought - often brave, innovative texts linked to women's social and legal status in an oppressive society. Extensive reference features include bibliographical guides to texts and writers.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521024544
• ISBN 13: 9780521024549
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336