This article analyses Margaret Cohen's theses on novels written by women in the first half of the nineteenth century. In her book The Sentimental Education of the Novel, Cohen describes the main features of the sentimental novel at the beginning of the century and shows how, from 1830 onwards, a new women's novel emerged, which she calls the « sentimental social novel ». Her work adopts two perspectives: one historiographical, which is always appreciable; the other, ideological and feminist, which is not always convincing in its claim to challenge the realism of Stendhal and Balzac.
À propos du « roman sentimental social »
Silvia Lorusso
2023-01-01
Abstract
This article analyses Margaret Cohen's theses on novels written by women in the first half of the nineteenth century. In her book The Sentimental Education of the Novel, Cohen describes the main features of the sentimental novel at the beginning of the century and shows how, from 1830 onwards, a new women's novel emerged, which she calls the « sentimental social novel ». Her work adopts two perspectives: one historiographical, which is always appreciable; the other, ideological and feminist, which is not always convincing in its claim to challenge the realism of Stendhal and Balzac.File in questo prodotto:
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