Woman, Your Hour is Sounding: Continuity and Change in French Women's Great War Fiction, 1914-1919
Nancy Sloan Goldberg
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hardcover. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 443.
French women of letters responded to the call to help their nation during the Great War, producing a large collection of war-centered writing including novels and short stories. While these authors were among the best-known, most critically-acclaimed, and prolific writers of their time, their names and works are largely forgotten now. Woman, Your Hour is Sounding examines more than forty of the novels and short stories published between 1914-1919, to analyze how the writers used fiction to voice their perception of the war's impact on women and their understanding of the personal and social transformations taking place as they wrote. ... Read more
French women of letters responded to the call to help their nation during the Great War, producing a large collection of war-centered writing including novels and short stories. While these authors were among the best-known, most critically-acclaimed, and prolific writers of their time, their names and works are largely forgotten now. Woman, Your Hour is Sounding examines more than forty of the novels and short stories published between 1914-1919, to analyze how the writers used fiction to voice their perception of the war's impact on women and their understanding of the personal and social transformations taking place as they wrote. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312177072
SKU
V9780312177072
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99-15
About Nancy Sloan Goldberg
NANCY SLOAN GOLDBERG is Professor of French and Women's Studies at Middle Tennessee State University.
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