Career Stories : : Belle Époque Novels of Professional Development / / Juliette M. Rogers.

In 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 fo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2007
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Penn State Romance Studies ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (260 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • Index