French women's writing, 1848-1994 / Diana Holmes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holmes, Diana, 1949-

Series:

Women in context (London, England) ; 3.

Women in context ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

French literature.

French literature--Women authors.

French literature--20th century--History and criticism.

French literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Women and literature--France--History.

Women and literature.

History.

France.

Physical Description:

xviii, 320 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Athlone, 1996.

Summary:

A wide range of French women writers are surveyed, including Sand, Colette, Beauvoir and Duras among the "canonized," and many marginalized or forgotten and contemporary names not yet widely known outside France. These writers are seen within the political, economic and cultural context of women's lives and how these have changed across a century-and-a-half. Underpinning the whole account is the relationship between gender and language, between politics sexual and textual.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-312) and index.

ISBN:

0485910047

0485920042

OCLC:

33948216