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Professor Beth Gale studies depictions of female adolescence in the French novel from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her research explores such topics as education, the body, family dynamics, friendship and sexuality from a sociohistorical perspective. |
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Renée Mauperin as "Vierge moderne": Documenting adolescence.
Beth W. Gale. "Renee Mauperin as "Vierge moderne": Documenting adolescence,"
Romance Quarterly 53.1 (Winter 2006): pp. 43-6.
Abstract:
The Goncourt brothers, Edmond Goncourt and Jules Goncourt document in their novel Renee Mauperin the basic conflict between a new brand of young woman and the society against whose laws she continually rebelled. Their insistence on the documentary aspects of their work is read as a wake up call to France, which had created a group of newly independent and outspoken young women who were forced into constrictive and outdated influence.
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