Writing the Self, Writing the Nation - Romantic Selfhood in the Works of Germaine de Stael and Claire de Duras (Paperback, New edition)

The French Revolution represents a pivotal moment within the history of personhood in France, where gender and national differences provided the foundations of society. As such, these constructs feature as ideological battlegrounds in the search for identity and self-expression within the Romantic literature published between the revolutions of 1789 and 1830. This book considers Germaine de Stael's and Claire de Duras's depictions of men's and women's shared and diverging lived experiences to offer an innovative transnational perspective on the usually male-focused mal du siecle. Its methodology combines feminist revisions of the novel, situated reading practices, and life writing research with an intersectional approach to gender and nationhood. This framework presents a dialectical relationship between sameness and difference on formal and thematic levels that challenges the construction and enforcement of binaries within early nineteenth-century legislation, discourse, and culture. Beyond Stael's and Duras's intertextual relationship, this book promotes the importance of an understudied period in literary scholarship, clarifies women's role within French Romanticism, and explores the tense relationship between the self and the nation.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, 37
Release date:	November 2018
First published:	2019
Authors:	Stacie Allan
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	240
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-78874-208-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	1-78874-208-7
Barcode:	9781788742085

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