03174nam 22006734a 450 991078488470332120230828224910.01-383-03889-91-280-75424-90-19-151436-51-4294-7039-9(CKB)1000000000401891(EBL)415730(OCoLC)476244557(SSID)ssj0000239338(PQKBManifestationID)11215727(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000239338(PQKBWorkID)10239316(PQKB)11354744(Au-PeEL)EBL415730(CaPaEBR)ebr10271556(CaONFJC)MIL75424(MiAaPQ)EBC415730(EXLCZ)99100000000040189120060615d2006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrRomance and readership in twentieth century France[electronic resource] /Diana HolmesLondon New York Oxford University Press20061 online resource (163 p.)Oxford studies in modern European cultureDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-924984-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-151) and index.A feminine genre, romance and women -- Passion, piety, and the new woman: romantic fiction at the Belle Epoque -- Reaction and resistance, romance in the 1930's and under the Occupation -- Love in a brave new world, romance in the 1950's -- Romance after feminism -- Love in a postmodern age, contemporary romance in France.This book traces the history of the romance through the turbulent history of twentieth-century women in France. It offers a compelling analysis not only of the mass-market or popular romance, but also of the bestselling 'middlebrow' novel, and of 'literary' romances by authors including Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, and their contemporary successors. - ;Romance in modern times is the most widely read yet the most critically despised of genres. Associated almost entirely with women, as readers and as writers, its popularity has been argued by gender traditionalists to confirm women's innate sentOxford studies in modern European culture.French fiction20th centuryHistory and criticismFrench fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismRomance fictionFranceHistory and criticismBooks and readingFranceHistory20th centuryBooks and readingFranceHistory19th centuryFrench fictionHistory and criticism.French fictionHistory and criticism.Romance fictionHistory and criticism.Books and readingHistoryBooks and readingHistory843/.085Holmes Diana1949-791951MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784884703321Romance and readership in twentieth century France3716877UNINA