Description
This highly original and elegantly persuasive argument may well be one of the most important revisions of nineteenth-century French literary history to have appeared in the past five years. -- Margaret Waller, Pomona College This is literary history and cultural analysis of striking significance... [It] provides a remarkable example of feminist rethinking of classic problems in literary and cultural history... -- Richard Terdiman, University of California, Santa Cruz
About the Author
Margaret Cohen is Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. She is the author of Profone illumination; Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surreolist Revolution and coeditor of Spectacles of Realism and The Literary Channel (Princeton, see page 32).
Reviews
Co-Winner of the 1999 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, Modern Language Association "This is an important book... Almost every page presents some salient point, proffers a useful fact, argues a question... In short, a remarkable work, necessary, and highly recommended."--Armand E. Singer, European Legacy "Carefully crafted, Cohen's book makes a persuasive argument about the relative value of prose realism and its chief rival in the sentimental social novel. Her book merits a large and appreciative audience of literary historians, theorists, and specialists in women's studies."--James Allen Smith, Nineteenth-Century French Studies "[A] significant scholarly contribution."--G. Gabrielle Starr, The Wordsworth Circle "A serious, intelligent attempt to understand more fully the early development of the nineteenth-century French novel."--John T. Booker, French Review
Awards
Joint winner of Modern Language Association Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies 2000.
Book Information
ISBN 9780691095882
Author Margaret Cohen
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 340g