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Informationen zum Autor Sophie Heywood is Lecturer in French at the University of Reading Klappentext The first book-length history of the classic French children's author, the comtesse de Ségur (1799-1874). Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, in France Ségur is a national icon and a cultural phenomenon. This study of her life and works will interest scholars of children's literature, gender studies, and nineteenth-century France. Zusammenfassung The first book-length history of the classic French children’s author, the comtesse de Ségur (1799-1874). Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, in France Ségur is a national icon and a cultural phenomenon. This study of her life and works will interest scholars of children’s literature, gender studies, and nineteenth-century France. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis List of abbreviationsList of illustrationsIntroduction1. Life stories2. Nobles, saints, and delinquents: constructions of childhood in the collected works of Madame de Ségur 3. The tribulations of an author: writing, censorship and the reading public under the Second Empire4. The comtesse and the culture wars5. Model girls and divine women: reading the comtesse de Ségur ConclusionAppendix I: The collected works of the comtesse de Ségur Appendix II: EditionsSelect bibliographyIndex
