La tradition des romans de femmes
Subtitle: XVIIIe-XIXe siècles
By: textes réunis et présentés par Catherine Mariette-Clot et Damien Zanone
Series: Littérature et genre -- 2
Publisher: Honoré Champion éditeur
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9782745322876
Subjects: French fiction; Congresses; Women authors; History and criticism; Women and literature; History
Description: The names of Mrs. Charriere, Cottin, de Duras, Gay, de Genlis, Graffigny, Guizot Krudener, Montolieu, Riccoboni, de Souza, Tencin in their time were famous novelists, but are little known to later generations. From the mid-nineteenth century, they have not been selected as scholars' quintessential pieces of the history of literature and the history of the woman's novel. As for the notoriety that has always surrounded the names of Madame de Staël and George Sand, it is often occupied aspects of their biography, constructed and darlings like stereotypes that their work of novelists. The fact is, however, in the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth, novels written and published by women is common enough to be recognized as a tradition of "women's novels". The unity of the collective name suggests the presence in these texts a specific handling of the romantic language, with recurring themes and features. "La tradition des romans de femmes: XVIIIe-XIXe siècles" discusses pertinent questions to this tradition, such as; Does it exist? Can critical discourse validate the idea that there was, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a tradition of novels of women?
Notes: "Journée d'études en octobre 2009 ... à l'Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3"--Page 17.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-446) and index.