Emilie Carles Robert Destanque Avriel H. Goldberger
Emilie Carles was born in 1900 into the rigidly conservative patriarchal world of a poor and isolated peasant community in the High Alps of France. Her autobiography is the tale of a world that has largely disappeared and of the one that has emerged to take its place. 8 pages of photographs.
Emilie Carles was born in 1900 into the rigidly conservative patriarchal world of a poor and isolated peasant community in the High Alps of France. He...
This selection of essays reveals the response of nineteenth-century women writers to the industrial revolution in Europe. Although it illustrates the variety of social and cultural backgrounds of authors whose lives spanned two centuries, this volume is unified by the introductory essay which explains how the industrial revolution altered women's perceptions of their roles, rights, and places in society. Subsequent essays treat the dual rebellions of women against personal and political mores, and describe how they attempted to escape sexual and cultural constraints and effected social...
This selection of essays reveals the response of nineteenth-century women writers to the industrial revolution in Europe. Although it illustrates t...
Carles autobiography is the tale of a world that has largely disappeared and of the one that emerged to take its place. Her account reflects the turbulent history of the twentieth century from the viewpoints of the many roles she played in it--teacher, farmer, feminist, pacifist, and political activist.
Carles autobiography is the tale of a world that has largely disappeared and of the one that emerged to take its place. Her account reflects the turbu...
-- Capturing eloquent observations of the Napoleonic period's most politically outspoken woman, this definitive edition of Germaine de Stael's Dix Annees d'Exil recounts her flight across Europe just ahead of Napoleon's army. Translated by an award-winning scholar, Ten Years of Exile is the only unabridged English edition of this strong-minded and passionate woman's personal and political journal.
-- Capturing eloquent observations of the Napoleonic period's most politically outspoken woman, this definitive edition of Germaine de Stael's Dix Ann...
This valuable compilation of articles offers original, historical, biographical and literary perspectives on the works of Stendhal. Eleven essays plunge the reader into Stendhal's mythological universe, providing new insights into the network of symbols, images and obsessional themes that run through his works. This multi-faceted collection examines Stendhal as the problematic subject for a biography, as autobiographer in his own right, as journalist, novelist, and innovator in the realm of fictional devices, and as the great representative of that literature of ideas first acclaimed by...
This valuable compilation of articles offers original, historical, biographical and literary perspectives on the works of Stendhal. Eleven essays p...
