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The Utility of Sentiment: Sentimentalism and Women Writers in Early Nineteenth-Century France.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Utility of Sentiment: Sentimentalism and Women Writers in Early Nineteenth-Century France./
Author:	Hajek, Anne C.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	297 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-05(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-05A(E).
Subject:	Romance literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10253810
ISBN:	9781369477702

The Utility of Sentiment: Sentimentalism and Women Writers in Early Nineteenth-Century France.
Hajek, Anne C.

The Utility of Sentiment: Sentimentalism and Women Writers in Early Nineteenth-Century France. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 297 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-05(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2017.

Through a series of case studies, this dissertation explores select novels and short stories by Stephanie-Felicite de Genlis, Fanny Tercy, Gabrielle Paban, Sophie Doin, and George Sand. These authors simultaneously embraced and transformed sentimentalism, effectively reinvigorating the genre between 1800 and 1850. To frame my textual analyses, I review in Chapter 1 the most prominent eighteenth-century discourses regarding gender and the femme auteur along with the conventions of fictional sentimentalism established by famous novels like Richardson's Clarissa (1748) and Rousseau's La Nouvelle Heloise (1761). In subsequent chapters, I show how each of the main authors in my corpus adapted those conventions to create new, hybrid permutations of sentimental narrative. In Chapter 2, I examine Genlis's efforts to combine sentimental fiction with history: in such works as Les Parvenus (1819) she blended well-known events and individual lived experiences, identifying important social changes and suggesting strategies to help nineteenth-century French readers adapt accordingly. Next, I examine the short fiction of Tercy, who infused sentimentalism with elements drawn from English gothicism, and used literature to draw attention to and preserve the endangered cultural heritage of her native region. Chapter 4 examines the use of sentimental narrative in abolitionist fiction by Paban, author of Le Negre et La Creole (1825) and Doin, who wrote La Famille noire (1825). Both of these writers deployed sentimentalism to emphasize the fundamental humanity of racially marked protagonists and argue for an end to slavery and the slave trade. The last chapter approaches Sand as both a recipient of sentimental tradition and a literary innovator: in Indiana (1832), Nanon (1872), and Consuelo (1842--843), Sand synthesized multiple strains of hybrid sentimentalism into her own, uniquely complex brand of fiction, joining the efforts of Genlis, Tercy, Paban, and Doin to effect change in the minds of their readers and in the world around them. I conclude by pointing to additional paths of inquiry related to the gender and gendering of sentimental authors.

ISBN: 9781369477702Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144781
Romance literature.

The Utility of Sentiment: Sentimentalism and Women Writers in Early Nineteenth-Century France.
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