Amongst Women; Literary Representations of Female Homosociality in Belle Epoque France, 1880-1914

ISBN-13: 9781800790643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 236 str.

Giada Alessandroni

Opis

How did nineteenth-century French women imagine and represent their relationships in fiction? Situated at the intersection of feminist cultural history and Belle Epoque literary studies, this book explores fictional representations of female homosociality in novels by Daniel Lesueur, Gabrielle Réval, Marcelle Tynaire, and Yver Prost, among others.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Female Friendship: «The Troubling Silence between the Lines»? - Female Friendship and the Body - Female Mentorship and the Making of the Femme Moderne in the Female Bildungsroman - Female Communities in Schoolgirl Fiction - Female Rivalry and Love Triangles - The Troublesome Noisiness of the «Troubling Silence between the Lines».

O autorze

Giada Alessandroni holds a PhD in French Studies from the University of Exeter. She is now an independent scholar and novelist.