Sophie Heywood

Catholicism and children's literature in France

The comtesse de Ségur (1799-1874)

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first book-length history of the classic French children's author, the comtesse de Ségur (1799-1874). Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, in France Ségur is a national icon and a cultural phenomenon. This study of her life and works will interest scholars of children's literature, gender studies, and nineteenth-century France.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 466g
• ISBN-13: 9780719084669
• ISBN-10: 0719084660
• Artikelnr.: 33614483

Autorenporträt

Sophie Heywood is Lecturer in French at the University of Reading.

Inhaltsangabe

List of abbreviations List of illustrations Introduction 1. Life stories 2.
Nobles, saints, and delinquents: constructions of childhood in the
collected works of Madame de Ségur 3. The tribulations of an author:
writing, censorship and the reading public under the Second Empire 4. The
comtesse and the culture wars 5. Model girls and divine women: reading the
comtesse de Ségur Conclusion Appendix I: The collected works of the
comtesse de Ségur Appendix II: Editions Select bibliography Index