Title Women and the city in French literature and culture : reconfiguring the feminine in the urban environment / edited by Siobhán McIlvanney and Gillian Ni Cheallaigh

Published Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2019 ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 302 pages) : illustrations Series French and francophone studies French and francophone studies. Contents A City for Young Ladies: The Parisian Flaneuse of the Journal des Demoiselles / Lucie Roussel Richard -- Unfolding the Domestic Interior: Women, Newspapers and the Nineteenth-Century City / Kathryn Brown -- Agnès Varda in Paris: The Urban Gaze of the Female Film-maker in Three Short Films / Jennifer Wallace -- Imagining on the Outskirts of the City: Duras's Le Camion and the marcheuse / Sarah Cooper -- n -- Morphologies of Becoming: Dehumanisation and Dandyism in Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin / Marina Starik -- Towards a Globalised Banlieue? Resilience through Literature in Three Narratives of the ̀Ultraperiphery' / Nathalie Ségeral -- Marriage, Pregnancy and the City in Marie Darrieussecq's Le Pays / Sonja Stojanovic -- Viewing the Algerian Cityscape in Nina Bouraoui's La Voyeuse interdite and Leila Sebbar's ̀Lajeune Fille au balcon' / Siobhán McIlvanney and Gillian Ni Cheallaigh -- ̀For Their Trouble and Labour': Women's Work Reconsidered in Late Medieval Amiens / Julie Pilorget -- City, War and Politicisation in Journal à quatre mains by Benoîte and Flora Groult / Imogen Long -- C'est l'endroit qui nous a faits ainsi: Place, Gender and Belonging in Nathacha Appanah's Blue Bay Palace and Ananda Devi's Ève de ses décombres / Julia Waters -- Gendered Spaces of Ageing: The Liberations and Limitations of Urban Space in Annie Ernaux and Nancy Huston / Kate Averis Summary An exciting, interdisciplinary collection of essays examining women's relationship to the city, which radically challenges many of the accepted commonplaces surrounding women's roles and positions within an urban space typically characterised as masculine Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Women and literature -- France -- History and criticism Feminism and literature -- France -- History and criticism French literature -- History and criticism Cities and towns in literature. Public spaces in literature. Women in popular culture -- France Urban women -- France Women in popular culture Urban women Women and literature Public spaces in literature French literature Feminism and literature Cities and towns in literature France Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author McIlvanney, Siobhán, editor. Ni Cheallaigh, Gillian, editor. ISBN 9781786834331 1786834332 9781786834348 1786834340 9781786834355 1786834359

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