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About this book
In Career Stories, Juliette Rogers considers a body of largely unexamined novels from the Belle Ăpoque that defy the usual categories allowed the female protagonist of the period. While most literary studies of the Belle Ăpoque (1880â1914) 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 Ăpoque, 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 women's possible roles in the public domain and in professional careers during this period. Career Stories 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 contributes a new facet to literary histories of the Belle Ăpoque: a subgenre of the bildungsroman that flourished briefly during the first decade of the twentieth century in France. Rogers terms this subgenre the female berufsroman, or novel of women's professional development.
Career Stories will change the way we think about the Belle Ăpoque and the interwar period in French literary history, because these women writers and their novels changed the direction that fiction writing would take in post-World War I France.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Innovation and Education: Historical Contexts from the Belle Epoque
- 2 Literary Contexts: Bildungsroman, Erziehungsroman, and Berufsroman
- 3 Dreams and Disappointments: Womenâs Education Novels
- 4 Cervelines: Women Scientists in Novels of Professional Development
- 5 Indépendantes: Professional Women Writers
- 6 The Composite Novel: Women Lawyers in Les Dames du Palais
- 7 After the War
- Appendixes
- References
- Index
- Back Cover