This is the most complete critical survey to date of women's literature in nineteenth-century France. Alison Finch's wide-ranging analysis of some 60 writers re

Duggan, and Adrion Dula hope both to foreground women writers' important contributions to the genre and to challenge common assumptions about what a fairy tale

This volume was the first historical introduction to women's writing in France from the sixth century to the present day. Specially-commissioned essays by leadi

“This thoughtful academic treatise . . . explores the lives of three famous gender nonconformists in fin-de-siècle Paris.” —Publishers Weekly Before the

Brings into relief a critical relationship between the female mind and body that is essential to understanding the discursive position of the turn-of-the-centur