Middlebrow matters : women's reading and the literary canon in France since the Belle Époque

Middlebrow matters women's reading and the literary canon in France since the Belle Époque

<b>An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.<br>Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies, 2018.</b><br>This is the first book to study the middlebrow novel in Franc...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Holmes, Diana, 1949- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press 2018.
Series:Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures
Subjects:
French fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
French fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
Women > Books and reading > France > History > 20th century.
Women > Books and reading > France > History > 21st century.
Women and literature > France > History > 20th century.
Women and literature > France > History > 21st century.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422358806719
Table of Contents:
  • Reclaiming the middlebrow
  • The birth of French middlebrow
  • Colette: The middlebrow modernist
  • Interwar France: The case of the missing middlebrow
  • The 'little world' of Françoise Sagan
  • Literary prizes, women and the middlebrow
  • Realism, romance and self-reflexivity: Twenty-first-century middlebrow
  • Conclusion: Marie NDiaye's femme puissante
  • a double reading.

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