Title The sentimental education of the novel / Margaret Cohen

Published Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1999]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Contents Introduction: Reconstructing the Literary Field -- Ch. I. Conflicting Duties: Sentimental Poetics -- Ch. II. The Novel Is a Young Man of Great Expectations: Realism against Sentimentality -- Ch. III. The Heart and the Code: George Sand and the Sentimental Social Novel -- Ch. IV. A Compromised Position: French Realism and the Femme Auteur Summary "The nineteenth-century French novel has long been seen as the heroic production of great men, who confronted in their works the social consequences of the French Revolution. And it is true that French realism, especially as developed by Balzac and Stendhal, was one of the most influential novelistic forms ever invented. Margaret Cohen, however, challenges the traditional account of the genesis of realism by returning Balzac and Stendhal to the forgotten novelistic contexts of their time. Reconstructing a key formative period for the novel, she shows how realist codes emerged in a "hostile takeover" of a prestigious contemporary sentimental practice of the novel, which was almost completely dominated by women writers."--Jacket "Cohen draws on archival research, resurrecting scores of forgotten nineteenth-century novels, to demonstrate that the codes most closely identified with realism were actually the invention of sentimentality, a powerful aesthetic of emerging liberal-democratic society, although Balzac and Stendhal trivialized sentimental works by associating them with "frivolous" women writers and readers."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209) and index Notes Print version record Subject French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism Sentimentalism in literature. French fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women and literature -- France -- History -- 19th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French. French fiction French fiction -- Women authors Sentimentalism in literature Women and literature Empfindsamkeit Roman Sentimentalisme. Romans. Frans. Vrouwen. Realisme (letterkunde) Sentiments -- Dans la littérature. Littérature française -- 19e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs. Femmes écrivains françaises -- Histoire et critique. France Französisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780691188249 0691188246

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