Rewriting for moral improvement: Genlis competes with Lafayette -- Friends and writers: Annie de Pè€ne and Colette -- Exile, loss, and anxiety: literary ambition in Huston and Sebbar's Parisian letters.
Summary:
"Focusing on the psychological aspects of the literary engagements between women in France, Katharine Ann Jensen combines close readings of their works with attention to historical and biographical contexts to consider how and why one or both women in the pair express contradictions or anxiety about writing ambition"-- Provided by publisher.
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