Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France by Joan Dejean

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

Joan Dejean

297 pages paperback

2 editions

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This treatise argues that women writers were the originators of the modern novel in France. It uses the novels of Scudery and Lafayette to illustrate how such works undermined French tradition by suggesting that women had a right to choose their h...

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