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Women and the city in French literature and culture : reconfiguring the feminine in the urban environment / edited by Siobhán McIlvanney and Gillian Ni Cheallaigh.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- French and francophone studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women and literature--France--History and criticism.
- Women and literature.
- Feminism and literature--France--History and criticism.
- Feminism and literature.
- French literature--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- Cities and towns in literature.
- Public spaces in literature.
- Women in popular culture--France.
- Women in popular culture.
- Urban women--France.
- Urban women.
- France.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 302 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, [2019]
- Contents:
- Part I Images of the Flâneuse: Mediatic Representations of Women's Relationship to the City
- Chapter 1 A City for Young Ladies: The Parisian Flâneuse of the Journal des Demoiselles p. 25 / Lucie Roussel Richard
- Chapter 2 Unfolding the Domestic Interior: Women, Newspapers and the Nineteenth-Century City p. 47 / Kathryn Brown
- Chapter 3 Agnès Varda in Paris: The Urban Gaze of the Female Film-maker in Three Short Films p. 72 / Jennifer Wallace
- Chapter 4 Imagining on the Outskirts of the City: Duras's Le Camion and the marcheuse p. 97 / Sarah Cooper
- Part II From the Periphery to the Centre: Marginalised Re-inscriptions of the Urban
- Chapter 5 Morphologies of Becoming: Dehumanisation and Dandyism in Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin p. 117 / Marina Starik
- Chapter 6 Towards a Globalised Banlieue? Resilience through Literature in Three Narratives of the 'Ultraperiphery' p. 140 / Nathalie Ségeral
- Chapter 7 Marriage, Pregnancy and the City in Marie Darrieussecq's Le Pays p. 161 / Sonja Stojanovic
- Chapter 8 Viewing the Algerian Cityscape in Nina Bouraoui's La Voyeuse interdite and Leïla Sebbar's 'La Jeune Fille au balcon' p. 180 / Siobhán McIlvanney and Gillian Ni Cheallaigh
- Part III Gendered Spaces, Gendered Places: The Feminisation of the City Environment
- Chapter 9 'For Their Trouble and Labour': Women's Work Reconsidered in Late Medieval Amiens p. 207 / Julie Pilorget
- Chapter 10 City, War and Politicisation in Journal à quatre mains by Benoîte and Flora Groult p. 224 / Imogen Long
- Chapter 11 C'est l'endroit qui nous a faits ainsi: Place, Gender and Belonging in Nathacha Appanah's Blue Bay Palace and Ananda Devi's Ève de ses décombres p. 246 / Julia Waters
- Chapter 12 Gendered Spaces of Ageing: The Liberations and Limitations of Urban Space in Annie Ernaux and Nancy Huston p. 266 / Kate Averis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1786834324
- 9781786834324
- OCLC:
- 1061090847
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