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- The Cambridge History of the Novel in French
- The Cambridge History of the Novel in French
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Conventions
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Beginnings: From the Late Medieval to Madame de Lafayette
- Part II The Eighteenth Century: Learning, Letters, Libertinage
- Part III After the Revolution: The Novel in the Long Nineteenth Century
- 14 Post-Revolutionary Novels
- 15 Private Pain and the Public Temper: The Personal Novel and Beyond
- 16 Between Romance and Social Critique: Staël and Women Writers of the Early Nineteenth Century
- 17 French Realism and History
- 18 Law and the Nineteenth-Century Novel
- 19 Colonial Encounters in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
- 20 French-Canadian Novels from the Nineteenth into the Twentieth Century
- 21 Gender and the Novel from Sand to Colette
- Part IV From Naturalism to the Nouveau Roman
- Part V Fictions of the Fifth Republic: From de Gaulle to the Internet Age
- Index
- References
21 - Gender and the Novel from Sand to Colette
from Part III - After the Revolution: The Novel in the Long Nineteenth Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2021
- The Cambridge History of the Novel in French
- The Cambridge History of the Novel in French
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Conventions
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Beginnings: From the Late Medieval to Madame de Lafayette
- Part II The Eighteenth Century: Learning, Letters, Libertinage
- Part III After the Revolution: The Novel in the Long Nineteenth Century
- 14 Post-Revolutionary Novels
- 15 Private Pain and the Public Temper: The Personal Novel and Beyond
- 16 Between Romance and Social Critique: Staël and Women Writers of the Early Nineteenth Century
- 17 French Realism and History
- 18 Law and the Nineteenth-Century Novel
- 19 Colonial Encounters in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
- 20 French-Canadian Novels from the Nineteenth into the Twentieth Century
- 21 Gender and the Novel from Sand to Colette
- Part IV From Naturalism to the Nouveau Roman
- Part V Fictions of the Fifth Republic: From de Gaulle to the Internet Age
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter focuses on novels by George Sand, Marcelle Tinayre, Rachilde and Colette, along with a series of lesser-known works from the July Monarchy to explore the relation between gender and the novel in nineteenth-century France. While it would be impossible to write a history of the nineteenth-century English novel without making women writers central to the analysis, the same has not been true for histories of the French novel of this period. The chapter explores how women grappled with their outsider status and the different strategies which they adopted in order to legitimate their voices in an often hostile literary world. While drawing attention to similarities of both content and form in women’s novelistic practice, it also considers and illustrates the diversity of literary practices which characterises women’s writing of the period, and highlights the important ways in which gender shaped separate but interconnecting histories of male and female authorship of the nineteenth-century French novel.
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- The Cambridge History of the Novel in French , pp. 382 - 400Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021