Tender Geographies
Title | Tender Geographies PDF eBook |
Author | Joan DeJean |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1993-12-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780231513630 |
Tender Geographies
Tender Geographies
Title | Tender Geographies PDF eBook |
Author | Joan E. DeJean |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780231062305 |
Tender Geographies offers a new version of literary history by arguing that French women writers were the originators of the modern novel. Joan DeJean exposes the gender politics of canon formation in France.During what is considered the Great Century of French Letters (1630-1715), women writers were active in numbers unheard of before or since. Featuring the best known early women novelists--ScudA(c)ry and Lafayette-- Tender Geographies repositions literary women in their contemporary context. DeJean demonstrates that women's writing was widely thought to convey a politically and socially subversive vision. Originally considered a threat to Church and State, women's novels were deliberately represented as innocent love stories by the first official literary historians and subsequently consigned to oblivion. DeJean demonstrates that the novel owes its origins to a thoroughly political act; the decision by women to make the genre a revolutionary force.
Geography and Plays
Title | Geography and Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Gertrude Stein |
Publisher | |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
The Literary Channel
Title | The Literary Channel PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Cohen |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 331 |
Release | 2002-01-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0691050023 |
In the Channel zone, the novel developed through interactions among texts, readers, writers, and translators that inextricably linked national literary cultures. It served as a forum to promote and critique nationalist cliches, whether from the standpoint of Enlightenment cosmopolitanism, the insurgent nationalism of colonized spaces, or the non-nationalized culture of consumption. In the process, the Channel zone promoted codes that became the genre's hallmarks, including the sentimental poetics that would shape fiction through the nineteenth century.
Vaux and Versailles
Title | Vaux and Versailles PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Goldstein |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2008-01-09 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780812240580 |
Goldstein shows how the connection between Vaux and Versailles is at the heart of classical style. She retraces the roots of Versailles in Fouquet's short-lived experiment, and destabilises any easy understanding of the court of the Sun King as the origin of French national style.
The Reinvention of Obscenity
Title | The Reinvention of Obscenity PDF eBook |
Author | Joan DeJean |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2002-06 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0226141411 |
The concept of obscenity is an ancient one. But as Joan DeJean suggests, its modern form, the same version that today's politicians decry and savvy artists exploit, was invented in seventeenth-century France. The Reinvention of Obscenity casts a fresh light on the mythical link between sexual impropriety and things French. Exploring the complicity between censorship, print culture, and obscenity, DeJean argues that mass market printing and the first modern censorial machinery came into being at the very moment that obscenity was being reinvented—that is, transformed from a minor literary phenomenon into a threat to society. DeJean's principal case in this study is the career of Moliére, who cannily exploited the new link between indecency and female genitalia to found his career as a print author; the enormous scandal which followed his play L'école des femmes made him the first modern writer to have his sex life dissected in the press. Keenly alert to parallels with the currency of obscenity in contemporary America, The Reinvention of Obscenity will concern not only scholars of French history, but anyone interested in the intertwined histories of sex, publishing, and censorship.
The Invisible Code
Title | The Invisible Code PDF eBook |
Author | William M. Reddy |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 2023-04-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520324498 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.