Revolution and Women's Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century France / Kathleen Hart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hart, Kathleen, 1960- author.

Series:

Faux titre ; Volume 244.

Faux Titre Series ; Volume 244

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

French literature.

French prose literature--Women authors.

French prose literature.

Women authors, French--Biography--History and criticism.

Women authors, French.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (196 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2004.

Summary:

Here for the first time is a book devoted exclusively to the topic of women's autobiography in nineteenth-century France. Tracing the rise of autobiography in relation to women's domestic confinement, Kathleen Hart demonstrates how Flora Tristan, George Sand, and Louise Michel transformed the genre. Inspired by Romantic socialism, each of these remarkable autobiographers links the story of her personal development to socio-historic change. In the wake of the 1830 Revolution, Tristan chronicles social unrest as she relates her progressive transformation into humanity's "Woman Guide" in Peregrinations of a Pariah (1838). Writing in the aftermath of the 1848 Revolution, Sand consolidates her role as a mediator between the rich and the poor in Story of My Life (1854). A legend of the 1871 Paris Commune, Michel establishes herself as the poet and prophet of a mythical Revolution yet to come in her Memoirs (1886). Exploring the dynamic interplay between revolution and feminist acts of self-affirmation, Revolution and Women's Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century France will appeal to scholars of history, French culture, literature, and women's studies.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Preface

I Women, Revolution, and the French Autobiographical Tradition

II Tracing New Routes: Flora Tristan's Peregrinations of a Pariah

III George Sand's Quest For Solidarity in Story of My Life

IV Living For Revolution: Louise Michel's Memoirs

Conclusion

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Other Format:

Print version: Hart, Kathleen Revolution and Women's Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century France

ISBN:

9789004490307

OCLC:

607497344

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004490307 DOI