Career Stories - Belle Époque Novels of Professional Development

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 (18801914) 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 womens possible roles in the public domain and in professional careers during this period. Career Stories seeks to understand early twentiethcentury France by examining novels written about professional women, bourgeois and working-class heroines.

About the author

Juliette M. Rogers is Associate Professor of French at the University of New Hampshire.

Summary

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 can change the way we think about the Belle Epoque and the interwar period in French literary history.

Product details

• Authors: Juliette Rogers, Juliette M. Rogers, Rogers Juliette M.
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2008
• EAN: 9780271032689
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03268-9
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 794 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Penn State Romance Studies; Penn State Romance Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; French, 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