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Femmes et littérature, une histoire culturelle offre pour la première fois un ample panorama de la présence des femmes en littérature, du Moyen Âge au XXI? siècle, en France et dans les pays francophones. Composé de deux volumes, l'ouvrage rend compte des multiples formes que prend leur production selon le temps auquel elles appartiennent : poésie, théâtre et roman, correspondance, journal intime et autobiographie, essai, pratique journalistique, littérature populaire et littérature pour enfants. Leur participation active à la vie littéraire, leur présence dans les cours et couvents, salons, cercles et académies, dans la presse et les médias, leur rapport au manuscrit, au livre et à l'édition, leurs réflexions sur l'éducation ainsi que sur leur "condition" spécifique sont analysés et mis en perspective. Fruit du travail collectif d'une dizaine de spécialistes, une telle synthèse contribue à enrichir considérablement les connaissances existantes. Elle rend ainsi toute sa place à une production littéraire souvent ignorée, rarement reconnue à sa juste valeur

Women and literature --- French literature --- Women in literature --- History --- Women authors --- History and criticism --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Literature

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"Telling stories: that sounds innocuous enough, but for the first chronicle in the Japanese vernacular, A Tale of Flowering Fortunes (Eiga monogatari), the health of its eleventh-century community was at stake. Flowering Tales is the first extensive literary study of this historical tale that covers about a hundred-fifty years of births, deaths, and happenings of late Heian society, a golden age of court literature. Takeshi Watanabe contends that the blossoming of tale literature, marked by The Tale of Genji, inspired what he describes as Eiga's affective history: an exorcism of embittered spirits whose stories needed to be retold to ensure peace. Tracing narrative arcs of political marginalized personages, Watanabe shows how Eiga, adapting the discourse and strategies of The Tale of Genji, reconnected wayward ghosts into the community through figural genealogies that relied not on blood, but on literary resonances. These reverberations, highlighted through comparisons to contemporaneous accounts in courtiers' journals, echo through shared details in funerary practices, lack of political support, and characterization. Flowering Tales reanimates these voices to trouble conceptions of history: how it ought to be recounted, who got to record it, and why remembering mattered"--

Historical fiction, Japanese --- Japanese fiction --- Women in literature. --- Courts and courtiers in literature. --- Japanese literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- History and criticism. --- Women authors. --- Eiga monogatari. --- Yotsugi monogatari --- 栄花物語 --- 栄華物語

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How were women represented in Greek tragedy? This question lies at the heart of much modern scholarship on ancient drama, yet it has typically been approached using evidence drawn only from the thirty-two tragedies that survive complete - neglecting tragic fragments, especially those recently discovered and often very substantial fragmentary papyri from plays that had been thought lost. Drawing on the latest research on both gender in tragedy and on tragic fragments, the essays in this volume examine this question from a fresh perspective, shedding light on important mythological characters such as Pasiphae, Hypsipyle, and Europa, on themes such as violence, sisterhood, vengeance, and sex, and on the methodology of a discipline which needs to take fragmentary evidence to heart in order to gain a fuller understanding of ancient tragedy. All Greek is translated to ensure wide accessibility.

Greek drama (Tragedy) --- Greek drama (Tragedy). --- Women in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Drama --- tragedy [literary, oral and motion picture genre] --- women [female humans] --- Greece --- Women in literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- History and criticism --- E-books --- tragedy [general genre]

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'This lively and clever book gave me a new concept: “compulsory demisexuality” as the governing law of romance for female sexual behavior. Making brilliant and original use of virginity loss confessionals and romance novels, McAlister crafts a highly readable interdisciplinary tour-de-force, of equal relevance to cultural studies, history, and literary studies and mandatory insightful reading for the fast-growing field of critical love/popular romance studies.' — Professor Catherine M. Roach, New College, The University of Alabama, USA, and author of Happily Ever After: The Romance Story in Popular Culture (2016) ‘The Consummate Virgin is that rare thing in academic scholarship – a book that is not only intellectually vigorous, but also hugely accessible and well-written. A talented and empathetic writer, McAlister’s text serves as both an important contribution to the field, and a great introduction to anyone thinking about the construction of virginity for the first time. Written with both passion and compassion, this is a must-read for anyone interested in better understanding how we frame sex and love in our turbulent times.' - Dr Lucy Neville, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Leicester, UK, author of Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys (2018) This book is a study of female virginity loss and its representations in popular Anglophone literatures. It explores dominant cultural narratives around what makes a “good” female virginity loss experience by examining two key forms of popular literature: autobiographical virginity loss stories and popular romance fiction. In particular, this book focuses on how female sexual desire and romantic love have become entangled in the contemporary cultural imagination, leading to the emergence of a dominant paradigm which dictates that for women, sexual desire and love are and should be intrinsically linked together: something which has greatly affected cultural scripts for virginity loss. This book examines the ways in which this paradigm has been negotiated, upheld, subverted, and resisted in depictions of virginity loss in popular literatures, unpacking the romanticisation of the idea of “the right one” and “the right time”.

Virginity in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Literature. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Cultural studies. --- Literature, general. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Cultural Studies. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship

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Nineteenth-Century American Women's Serial Novels explores the prolific careers of four exemplary novelists - E. D. E. N. Southworth, Ann Stephens, Mary Jane Holmes, and Laura Jean Libbey. These commercially successful writers helped to shape the popular tradition of serial magazine fiction by drawing on readers' tastes along with their cultural concerns. Their astonishing productivity led magazine editors and publishers to return to them repeatedly for more serials to be turned into even more novels, even as they reprinted these fictions under new titles. Dale M. Bauer analyzes how serials deployed the repetition of plots and the traumas representing the sources of women's anxieties and pain. Arguing that these novels provided temporary resolutions to the social, economic, and psychological tensions that readers faced, Bauer explains how this otherwise forgotten archive of fiction now offers an extraordinarily expanded range of women's literary effort from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.

Women novelists, American --- Women novelists --- American fiction --- Women and literature --- Women in literature --- Women --- Serialized fiction --- Literature publishing --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Fiction --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Novelists --- Women authors --- American women novelists --- History and criticism. --- History --- Social conditions