Tender Geographies - Women and the Origins of the Novel in France (Hardcover, New)

Tender Geographies offers a new version of literary history by arguing that French women writers were the originators of the modern novel. Joan DeJean exposes the gender politics of canon formation in France.During what is considered the Great Century of French Letters (1630-1715), women writers were active in numbers unheard of before or since. Featuring the best known early women novelists--ScudA(c)ry and Lafayette-- Tender Geographies repositions literary women in their contemporary context. DeJean demonstrates that women's writing was widely thought to convey a politically and socially subversive vision. Originally considered a threat to Church and State, women's novels were deliberately represented as innocent love stories by the first official literary historians and subsequently consigned to oblivion. DeJean demonstrates that the novel owes its origins to a thoroughly political act; the decision by women to make the genre a revolutionary force.

General

Imprint:	Columbia University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 1991
First published:	December 1991
Authors:	Joan Dejean
Dimensions:	278 x 153 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Trade binding
Pages:	297
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-231-06230-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	0-231-06230-3
Barcode:	9780231062305

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