04642nam 22007815 450 991059789880332120230118091543.0978027104982302710498209780271034973027103497110.1515/9780271034973(CKB)1000000000534460(MiAaPQ)EBC3384959(DE-B1597)584319(DE-B1597)9780271034973(OCoLC)1262308282(Perlego)4394862(EXLCZ)99100000000053446020210729h20212007 fg engur||#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCareer Stories Belle Époque Novels of Professional Development /Juliette M. RogersUniversity Park, PA :Penn State University Press,[2021]©20071 online resource (260 p.)Penn State Romance Studies ;39780271032696 0271032693 Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1 Innovation and Education: Historical Contexts from the Belle Epoque --2 Literary Contexts: Bildungsroman, Erziehungsroman, and Berufsroman --3 Dreams and Disappointments: Women’s Education Novels --4 Cervelines: Women Scientists in Novels of Professional Development --5 Indépendantes: Professional Women Writers --6 The Composite Novel: Women Lawyers in Les Dames du Palais --7 After the War --Appendixes --References --IndexIn 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.French fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticismFrench fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismFrench fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismProfessions in literatureWomen and literatureFranceHistory19th centuryWomen and literatureFranceHistory20th centuryLiteratura francesathubDones i literaturathubEscriptores francesesthubHistòriathubProfessionsthubHISTORY / Europe / FrancebisacshFrançathubLlibres electrònicsthubFrench fictionWomen authorsHistory and criticism.French fictionHistory and criticism.French fictionHistory and criticism.Professions in literature.Women and literatureHistoryWomen and literatureHistoryLiteratura francesa.Dones i literaturaEscriptores francesesHistòriaProfessionsHISTORY / Europe / France.843/.91099287Rogers Juliette M.1961-authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1097570DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910597898803321Career stories2618032UNINA