Career Stories: Belle Époque Novels of Professional Development

by Juliette M. Rogers

Book Overview

In Career Stories, Juliette Rogers considers a body of largely unexamined novels from the Belle poque that defy the usual categories allowed the female protagonist of the period. While most literary studies of the Belle poque (1880-1914) focus on the conventional housewife or harlot distinction for female protagonists, the heroines investigated in Career Stories are professional lawyers, doctors, teachers, writers, archeologists,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271032693
• ISBN13: 9780271032696
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"