Belle Époque Novels of Professional Development
by
Juliette M. Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
In Career Stories, Juliette Rogers considers a body of largely unexamined novels from the Belle Époque that defy the usual categories allowed the female protagonist of the period. While most literary studies of the Belle Époque (1880–1914) focus on the conventional housewife or harlot distinction...