Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France

by Joan DeJean

Book Overview

Tender Geographies offers a new version of literary history by arguing that French women writers were the originators of the modern novel. Joan DeJean exposes the gender politics of canon formation in France.During what is considered the Great Century of French Letters (1630-1715), women writers were active in numbers unheard of before or since. Featuring the best known early women novelists--ScudA(c)ry and Lafayette-- Tender Geographies repositions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231062303
• ISBN13: 9780231062305
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher