Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France by Dejean, Joan

Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231062312)

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Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France by Dejean, Joan

Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France

$38.00
Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France by Dejean, Joan

Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France

$38.00
Format: Paperback
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This treatise argues that women writers were the originators of the modern novel in France. It uses the novels of Scudery and Lafayette to illustrate how such works undermined French tradition by suggesting that women had a right to choose their husbands and to lead independent lives.

Author: Joan Dejean
ISBN-10: 0231062311
ISBN-13: 9780231062312
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/16/1993
Pages: 297
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.76h x 5.89w x 0.73d
By Joan Dejean
By Joan Dejean
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Jean DeJean is a Trustee Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Fictions of Sappho (1546-1937) and co-editor, with Nancy Miller of Displacements: Women, Tradition, Literatures in French.

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