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The Forgotten Generation

The Forgotten Generation

Hardcover

Series: Berg French Studies

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1859731139
ISBN13: 9781859731130
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Apr 1 1997
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.74 Width: 5.52 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

As a wave of open misogyny swept through French literature and society in the aftermath of the Great War, a new generation of professional women writers took up pen to redress the situation. They disputed the prescriptive social and cultural roles ascribed to women and proposed inspiring new definitions of womanhood. Many critics today are oblivious to women's literary achievements during this period, which remain subject to severe critical neglect. This book analyzes and challenges the way in which these important women writers have been marginalized in the annals of French literary history and offers fresh readings and reappraisals of their thematically and aesthetically innovative works.

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