{"product_id":"tender-geographies-women-and-the-origins-of-the-novel-in-france-0231062303","title":"Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in France","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0231062303\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e DeJean, Joan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTender Geographies offers a new version of literary history by arguing that French women writers were the originators of the modern novel. Joan DeJean exposes the gender politics of canon formation in France.During what is considered the Great Century of French Letters (1630-1715), women writers were active in numbers unheard of before or since. Featuring the best known early women novelists--ScudA(c)ry and Lafayette-- Tender Geographies repositions literary women in their contemporary context. DeJean demonstrates that women's writing was widely thought to convey a politically and socially subversive vision. Originally considered a threat to Church and State, women's novels were deliberately represented as innocent love stories by the first official literary historians and subsequently consigned to oblivion. DeJean demonstrates that the novel owes its origins to a thoroughly political act; the decision by women to make the genre a revolutionary force.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51680446120224,"sku":"NEW0231062303","price":167.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71Cmcrmi9_L.jpg?v=1779346828","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/tender-geographies-women-and-the-origins-of-the-novel-in-france-0231062303","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}