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Book Reviews1 5 1 rights movement or talented authors, and it is apparent that the themes of her narratives developed during that time. In response to a closed-minded professor, who believes a woman's greatest achievement involves marriage and children, she comments, "[J]e crois ne pouvoir rien imaginer de plus beau, de plus noble, que cette sorte de liberté où, dans un même accord à deux, chacune s'absorbe avec passion et ferveur, avec tout la fougue de son individualisme, dans la fièvre de la création" (182-83). Indeed, this creative vision could well serve as a motto for all readers ofher fiction. Edith Biegler VandervoortAntelope Valley College Rogers, Juliette. Career Stories: Belle Epoque Novels of Professional Development University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. Pp 249. ISBN 978-0-271-03268. $39.00 (Cloth). ISBN 978-0-27103269 -6. $30.00 (Paper). Juliette Rogers contends that the Belle Epoque novel of women's professional development deserves a place in French literary history "both as a historical reflection of women's culture and an innovative phase in feminist literature from France" (13). Focusing on this once popular and now largely neglected subgenre by women writers, Rogers develops an "alternative viewpoinf' in which what she calls the female berufsroman "helped shape and redefine the modem heroine" for the new century (216). This study of eleven novels written in the first decade of the twentieth century by Colette, Gabrielle Reval, Colette Yver, Marcelle Tinayre, Marcelle Babin, Louise-Marie Compain, and Esther de Suze includes a bibliography of primary and secondary sources and appendices with plot summaries of the novels examined and biographical sketches of their authors. It will interest a broad public: specialists of the period; those interested in feminist literary history, print culture or genre studies; and anyone not familiar with the majority ofthe authors ofthe female berufsroman. Chapter one contextualizes the novels through an overview of changes in educational structures and professional gains for French women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries. Chapter two complements this sociohistorical material with a probing analysis of the forms and techniques of four Belle Epoque novels of male development by Paul Bourget, Maurice Barres, André Gide and Myriam Harry. Elements and techniques ofthe traditional novel of development and its Belle Epoque manifestations highlight the literary features ofthe female berufsroman. The subsequent chapters treat the novel of women's professional development and place its female characters into one ofthree general categories. Chapter three explores various "official communities" ofwomen in education in Colette's Claudine à l'école, Yver's Les Sévriennes, Campain's L 'Un vers l'autre, and de Suze's Institutrice. Chapter four identifies another category, the 1 52Women in French Studies female "pioneer" in science, who is either a "brainy woman" or a "seduced brainy woman." More so than die heroines of the education novels, women in Yver's Les Cervelines and Les Princesses de science, Reval's La Bachelière, and Babin's Pharmacienne contend with the competing demands of their professional and personal lives. In Chapter five Rogers considers "independent women," who as writers were both consumers and producers of culture in Colette's La Vagabonde, Tinayre's La Rebelle, and Yver's Les Cervelines. Chapter six looks at how Yver's "composite" novel, Les Dames du Palais, assembles all three categories of female characters to create a fictional world where, contrary to historical fact, many women practice law and for a variety of reasons. Rogers' detailed analyses elucidate how the female berufsroman adopts, adapts or refuses certain elements of the traditional and Belle Epoque novels of male development. Rogers cautions against dismissing these works as subliterary and/or antifeminist and resists over-simplistic readings of the heroine's "renunciation" as "anti-feminist." Unlike the novels of male development, the female berufsroman includes, for example, the lack of a strong mentor-disciple relationship, portrayals of technical and professional skills, and rites ofpassage. Finally, Rogers argues interestingly and importantly that the greatest innovation ofthe female berufsroman lies in its use ofthe "romance plof to complicate the traditional "quest plot." The concluding chapter "After the War" considers the historical, cultural, and social reasons for the...
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