Germinie Lacerteux (French Classics)
Germinie Lacerteux (French Classics)

Author: Edmond De Goncourt

Publisher: Mondial

Published: 2015-01-06

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1595690670

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In his will, Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896) left a bequest in honor of his brother Jules de Goncourt (1830-1870) to establish and support a French literary salon, the Academie Goncourt, and later the famous Prix Goncourt, an award that to this day remains France's most significant literary prize. --- The Goncourt brothers, who co-authored a series of novels on social themes, were among the founders of literary "Naturalism" in France. Emile Zola would emerge as this movement's most important representative in his cycle of novels "Les Rougon- Macquart". --- Among the novels co-written by the Goncourt brothers, "Germinie Lacerteux" (1865) is especially noteworthy. The double-live of the novel's Parisian domestic servant, who is ground down and destroyed by the conditions she lives in, but who for decades keeps these conditions hidden from her employer, continues to captivate book-lovers in France and the rest of the world to this day.

Germinie Lacerteux
Germinie Lacerteux

Author: Jules de Goncourt

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-04

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Germinie Lacerteux" by Jules de Goncourt, Edmond de Goncourt. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism
European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism

Author: Martin Travers

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2006-06-15

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0826439608

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European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism is an anthology of key theoretical writings by the major representatives of the schools and movements of recent European literature. Each chapter is devoted to one particular school of movement from within the broad body of literature, from romanticism, realism and modernism though to the literature of political engagement of the 1920s and 1930s, and the more recent initiative of postmodernism. These texts are approached both on their own terms as individual formulations of the goals and procedures (literary, aesthetic and political) that characterized the work of these writers, and as key documents of the literary school or movement to which these writers belonged.

Realism and Naturalism
Realism and Naturalism

Author: Richard Daniel Lehan

Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9780299208745

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In this intellectual and literary history of American, British, and Continental novels of realism and naturalism from 1850 to 1950, Richard Lehan argues that literary naturalism is a narrative mode that creates its own reality. Employing this strategy allows and encourages intertextuality - one novel talking or responding to another.

Sexualizing Power in Naturalism
Sexualizing Power in Naturalism

Author: Irene Gammel

Publisher: University of Calgary Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1895176395

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Presenting a revisionary reading of German, Canadian, and American texts such as Fanny Essler, Settlers of the Marsh, and Sister Carrie, Gammel (English, U. of Prince Edward Island) attributes to naturalism, a predominantly male genre, the appropriation of a disruptive female sexuality not so much to "liberate" it from Victorian repression as to contain it within the male boundaries of naturalism. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The European Women's History Reader
The European Women's History Reader

Author: Fiona Montgomery

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9780415220811

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The European Women's History Reader is a fascinating collection of seminal articles and extracts, exploring the social, economic, religious and political history of women across Europe since the late eighteenth century. This ambitious volume is arranged into four chronological sections all with their own introductions, which provide context for the chapters that follow. The collection also includes a useful general introduction, which makes the articles accessible to students and helps to define this increasingly important area of study.

On Both Sides of the Tracks
On Both Sides of the Tracks

Author: Morgane Cadieu

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2024-01-05

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0226830357

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An analysis of social mobility in contemporary French literature that offers a new perspective on figures who move between social classes. Social climbers have often been the core characters of novels. Their position between traditional tiers in society makes them touchstones for any political and literary moment, including our own. Morgane Cadieu’s study looks at a certain kind of social climber in contemporary French literature whom she calls the parvenant. Taken from the French term parvenu, which refers to one who is newly arrived, a parvenant is a character who shuttles between social groups. A parvenant may become part of a new social class but devises literary ways to come back, constantly undoing any fixed idea of social affiliation. Focusing on recent French novels and autobiographies, On Both Sides of the Tracks speaks powerfully to issues of emancipation and class. Cadieu offers a fresh critical look at tales of social mobility in the work of Annie Ernaux, Kaoutar Harchi, Michel Houellebecq, Édouard Louis, and Marie NDiaye, among others, shedding fascinating light on upward mobility today as a formal, literary problem.

The Servant's Hand
The Servant's Hand

Author: Bruce Robbins

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780822313977

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A work of innovative literary and cultural history, The Servant's Hand examines the representation of servants in nineteenth-century British fiction. Wandering in the margins of these texts that are not about them, servants are visible only as anachronistic appendages to their masters and as functions of traditional narrative form. Yet their persistence, Robbins argues, signals more than the absence of the "ordinary people" they are taken to represent. Robbins's argument offers a new and distinctive approach to the literary analysis of class, while it also bodies forth a revisionist counterpolitics to the realist tradition from Homer to Virginia Woolf. Originally published in 1986 (Columbia University Press), The Servant's Hand is appearing for the first time in paperback.

Negotiating the New in the French Novel
Negotiating the New in the French Novel

Author: Teresa Bridgeman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-16

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1134790066

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Applies insights from pragmatic theory to the French novel in order to examine its discourse conventions. Focusing on texts by some of the greatest and most innovative French novelists.