Career Stories: Belle Époque Novels of Professional Development

Juliette M. Rogers

Published by Penn State University Press 2007

Career Stories

Belle Époque Novels of Professional Development

Juliette M. Rogers

Volume 3 in the series Penn State Romance Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271034973

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In Career Stories, Juliette Rogers considers a body of largely unexamined novels from the Belle Époque that defy the usual categories allowed the female protagonist of the period. While most literary studies of the Belle Époque (1880–1914) focus on the conventional housewife or harlot distinction for female protagonists, the heroines investigated in Career Stories are professional lawyers, doctors, teachers, writers, archeologists, and scientists.

In addition to the one well-known woman writer from the Belle Époque, Colette, this study will expand our knowledge of relatively unknown authors, including Gabrielle Reval, Marcelle Tinayre, and Colette Yver, who actively participated in contemporary debates on women's possible roles in the public domain and in professional careers during this period. Career Stories seeks to understand early twentieth century France by examining novels written about professional women, bourgeois and working-class heroines, and the particular dilemmas that they faced. This book contributes a new facet to literary histories of the Belle Époque: a subgenre of the bildungsroman that flourished briefly during the first decade of the twentieth century in France. Rogers terms this subgenre the female berufsroman, or novel of women's professional development.

Career Stories will change the way we think about the Belle Époque and the interwar period in French literary history, because these women writers and their novels changed the direction that fiction writing would take in post-World War I France.

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Rogers Juliette M. :

Juliette M. Rogers is Associate Professor of French at the University of New Hampshire.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 Innovation and Education: Historical Contexts from the Belle Epoque Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
2 Literary Contexts: Bildungsroman, Erziehungsroman, and Berufsroman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3 Dreams and Disappointments: Women’s Education Novels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
4 Cervelines: Women Scientists in Novels of Professional Development Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
5 Indépendantes: Professional Women Writers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
6 The Composite Novel: Women Lawyers in Les Dames du Palais Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
7 After the War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
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Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 260
Keywords: Belle Époque; Gabrielle Reval; Marcelle Tinayre; Colette Yver; twentieth century France; Les Dames du Palais; bildungsroman; Cervelines women; lawyers; women writers

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Published: November 29, 2016
ISBN: 9780271034973