ISBN: 0691006482

[SR: 5855372], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780691006482], Princeton University Press, Princeton University Press, Book, [PU: Princeton University Press], Princeton University Press, The nineteenth-… More...

[SR: 5855372], Hardcover, [EAN: 9780691006482], Princeton University Press, Princeton University Press, Book, [PU: Princeton University Press], Princeton University Press, The nineteenth-century French novel has long been seen as the heroic production of great men, who confronted in their works the social consequences of the French Revolution. And it is true that French realism, especially as developed by Balzac and Stendhal, was one of the most influential novelistic forms ever invented. Margaret Cohen, however, challenges the traditional account of the genesis of realism by returning Balzac and Stendhal to the forgotten novelistic contexts of their time. Reconstructing a key formative period for the novel, she shows how realist codes emerged in a "hostile take-over" of a prestigious contemporary sentimental practice of the novel, which was almost completely dominated by women writers. Cohen draws on impressive archival research, resurrecting scores of forgotten nineteenth-century novels, to demonstrate that the codes most closely identified with realism were actually the invention of sentimentality, a powerful aesthetic of emerging liberal-democratic society, although Balzac and Stendhal trivialized sentimental works by associating them with "frivolous" women writers and readers. Attention to these gendered struggles over genre explains why women were not pioneers of realism in France during the nineteenth century, a situation that contrasts with England, where women writers played a formative role in inventing the modern realist novel. Cohen argues that to understand how literary codes respond to material factors, it is imperative to see how such factors take shape within the literary field as well as within society as a whole. The book also proposes that attention to literature as a social institution will help critics resolve the current, vital question of how to practice literary history in the wake of poststructuralism., 10207, Criticism & Theory, 10204, History & Criticism, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 10159368011, French, 271602011, European, 10159358011, Regional & Cultural, 10204, History & Criticism, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 10159380011, Women Authors, 10204, History & Criticism, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 10410, French, 271600011, European, 10311, World Literature, 17, Literature & Fiction, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 11344, Women Writers, 11325, Women's Studies, 3377866011, Politics & Social Sciences, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 684276011, European, 684272011, World Literature, 468236, Literature, 468206, Humanities, 465600, New, Used & Rental Textbooks, 2349030011, Specialty Boutique, 283155, Books<

ISBN: 9780691006482

"This highly original and elegantly persuasive argument may well be one of the most important revisions of nineteenth-century French literary history to have appeared in the past five yea… More...

"This highly original and elegantly persuasive argument may well be one of the most important revisions of nineteenth-century French literary history to have appeared in the past five years."--Margaret Waller, Pomona College"This is literary history and cultural analysis of striking significance. . . . [It] provides a remarkable example of feminist rethinking of classic problems in literary and cultural history. . . ."--Richard Terdiman, University of California, Santa Cruz Media > Book, [PU: Princeton University Press]<

1999, ISBN: 9780691006482

Princeton University Press, 1999-08-09. Hardcover. Very Good. This is an ex-library book that is in new condition. Has no stamps, only two stickers, pages are clean and it was never rea… More...

Princeton University Press, 1999-08-09. Hardcover. Very Good. This is an ex-library book that is in new condition. Has no stamps, only two stickers, pages are clean and it was never read *** Hard-Bound *** Princeton University Press, Princeton University Press, 1999-08-09<

1993, ISBN: 9780691006482

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993 First edition hardcover in dust jacket. 219 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Barest hint of a spine lean. Jacket has one tiny tear, hint… More...

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993 First edition hardcover in dust jacket. 219 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Barest hint of a spine lean. Jacket has one tiny tear, hint of wear. Near Fine/Near Fine.. Book., Princeton University Press, 1993<

1999, ISBN: 9780691006482

Princeton University Press, 1999-08-09. Hardcover. Used:Good., Princeton University Press, 1999-08-09