Romance and Readership in Twentieth-Century France - Love Stories

Zusatztext Diana Holmes's compact monograph constitutes not only a significant contribution to research in the field of French women's writing, but also a fascinating study of French women's reading-affairs with textual inscriptions of romance...meticulously researched, this monograph is a timely and impressive piece of work. Informationen zum Autor Diana Holmes is Professor of French at the University of Leeds Klappentext This book traces the history of the romance through the turbulent history of twentieth-century women in France. It offers a compelling analysis not only of the mass-market or popular romance, but also of the bestselling 'middlebrow' novel, and of 'literary' romances by authors including Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, and their contemporary successors. Zusammenfassung This book traces the history of the romance through the turbulent history of twentieth-century women in France. It offers a compelling analysis not only of the mass-market or popular romance, but also of the bestselling 'middlebrow' novel, and of 'literary' romances by authors including Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, and their contemporary successors. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: A Feminine Genre: Romance and Women 2: Passion, Piety, and the New Woman: Romantic Fiction at the Belle Epoque 3: Reaction and Resistance: Romance in the 1930s and under the Occupation 4: Love in a Brave New World: Romance in the Fifties 5: Romance after Feminism 6: Love in a Postmodern Age: Contemporary Romance in France

Product details

• Authors: Diana Holmes, Diana (Professor of French Holmes, Holmes Diana
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.12.2006
• EAN: 9780199249848
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924984-8
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Oxford Studies in Modern Europ; Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture; Oxford Studies in Modern Europ
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; France, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form