Having It All In The Belle Epoque
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Having It All In The Belle Epoque
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Author : Rachel Mesch
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2013-07-03
Having It All In The Belle Epoque written by Rachel Mesch and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
“In this entertaining academic history of these rival magazines, Mesch . . . explores the emergence of the working woman in France.” —Publishers Weekly At once deeply historical and surprisingly timely, Having It All in the Belle Epoque shows how the debates that continue to captivate high-achieving women in America and Europe can be traced back to the early 1900s in France. The first two photographic magazines aimed at women, Femina and La Vie Heureuse created a female role model who could balance age-old convention with new equalities. Often referred to simply as the “modern woman,” this captivating figure embodied the hopes and dreams as well as the most pressing internal conflicts of large numbers of French women during what was a period of profound change. Full of never-before-studied images of the modern French woman in action, Having It All shows how these early magazines exploited new photographic technologies, artistic currents, and literary trends to create a powerful model of French femininity, one that has exerted a lasting influence on French expression. This book introduces and explores the concept of Belle Epoque literary feminism, a product of the elite milieu from which the magazines emerged. Defined by its refusal of political engagement, this feminism was nevertheless preoccupied with expanding women’s roles, as it worked to construct a collective fantasy of female achievement. Through an astute blend of historical research, literary criticism, and visual analysis, Mesch’s study of women’s magazines and the popular writers associated with them offers an original window onto a bygone era that can serve as a framework for ongoing debates about feminism, femininity, and work-life tensions
Twilight Of The Belle Epoque
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Author : Mary McAuliffe
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2014-03-16
Twilight Of The Belle Epoque written by Mary McAuliffe and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-16 with History categories.
Mary McAuliffe’s Dawn of the Belle Epoque took the reader from the multiple disasters of 1870–1871 through the extraordinary re-emergence of Paris as the cultural center of the Western world. Now, in Twilight of the Belle Epoque, McAuliffe portrays Paris in full flower at the turn of the twentieth century, where creative dynamos such as Picasso, Matisse, Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel, Proust, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, and Isadora Duncan set their respective circles on fire with a barrage of revolutionary visions and discoveries. Such dramatic breakthroughs were not limited to the arts or sciences, as innovators and entrepreneurs such as Louis Renault, André Citroën, Paul Poiret, François Coty, and so many others—including those magnificent men and women in their flying machines—emphatically demonstrated. But all was not well in this world, remembered in hindsight as a golden age, and wrenching struggles between Church and state as well as between haves and have-nots shadowed these years, underscored by the ever-more-ominous drumbeat of the approaching Great War—a cataclysm that would test the mettle of the City of Light, even as it brutally brought the Belle Epoque to its close. Through rich illustrations and evocative narrative, McAuliffe brings this remarkable era from 1900 through World War I to vibrant life.
A Belle Epoque
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Author : Diana Holmes
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2006-01-01
A Belle Epoque written by Diana Holmes and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Social Science categories.
The Third Republic, known as the ‘belle époque’, was a period of lively, articulate and surprisingly radical feminist activity in France, borne out of the contradiction between the Republican ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity and the reality of intense and systematic gender discrimination. Yet, it also was a period of intense and varied artistic production, with women disproving the critical nearconsensus that art was a masculine activity by writing, painting, performing, sculpting, and even displaying an interest in the new "seventh art" of cinema. This book explores all these facets of the period, weaving them into a complex, multi-stranded argument about the importance of this rich period of French women’s history.
Belle Poque
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Author : Elizabeth Ross
language : en
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Release Date : 2013-09-05
Belle Poque written by Elizabeth Ross and has been published by Hot Key Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-05 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
In the fight to be the most beautful, the ugly face of bohemian Paris is revealed When sixteen-year-old Maude runs away to Paris, her romantic dreams vanish as quickly as her savings. Increasingly desperate for money, she answers a mysterious advert: 'Young Women Wanted for Undemanding Work. Apply In Person To The Durandeau Agency.' But the work is very strange indeed. Maude discovers she is to be a repoussoir - an ugly young woman hired by Parisian socialites to enhance their beauty. Maude is humiliated - but faced with destitution, what choice does she have? Quickly (and secretly) selected as the perfect companion for the Countess Dubern's daughter Isabelle, Maude is thrown into a decadent world full of parties, glamour and astonishing cruelty. Maude finds that academic Isabelle is equally disenchanted with the Parisian social scene, and the girls form a tight bond. But when bohemian artist Paul and the handsome Duke d'Avaray are introduced into the girls' lives, their friendship will be tested to its limits. The girls are about to discover the true meaning of being beautiful...
The Belle Poque
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Author : Dominique Kalifa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-07-06
The Belle Poque written by Dominique Kalifa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-06 with categories.
The years before the First World War have long been romanticized as a zenith of French culture--the "Belle Époque." Dominique Kalifa traces the making--and the imagining--of the Belle Époque to reveal how and why it became a cultural myth.
Feminisms Of The Belle Epoque
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Author : Jennifer R. Waelti-Walters
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1994-01-01
Feminisms Of The Belle Epoque written by Jennifer R. Waelti-Walters and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume consists of new translations of twenty-six representative selections from the belle äpoque, the period of cultural efflorescence in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France. These pieces have a remarkably modern sound; the anger of Nelly Roussel, the arguments for reproductive freedom, and the case histories of prostitutes transcend time and circumstance. Chosen from newspapers, speeches, novels, political tracts, and the like, these selections portray the range of feminist response to the prevailing social situation of women?from the generally meliorist position of the Christian feminists to the radical stances of socialist and utopian feminists. The works of authors well known at the turn of the century are interspersed with stories of the lives of some of society's victims. The selections are organized thematically: education, work, prostitution and the double standard, marriage and male-female relations, maternity, and political and civil rights. In the volume introduction and in introductions to each selection, the editors place the pieces within their historical and social settings.
Dawn Of The Belle Epoque
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Author : Mary Mcauliffe
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Incorporated
Release Date : 2014
Dawn Of The Belle Epoque written by Mary Mcauliffe and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Pub Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with History categories.
Examines the period of French history from 1871 to the onset of World War I, which was marked by advances in politics, the arts, music, science, and technology, through the eyes of the innovators who fought the forces of tradition.
Parisian Architecture Of The Belle Epoque
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Author : Roy Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Academy Press
Release Date : 2007-03-20
Parisian Architecture Of The Belle Epoque written by Roy Johnston and has been published by Academy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-20 with Architecture categories.
Turn of the century Paris is often referred to as the belle époque, a golden age of affluence and artistic creativity before the turmoil of the First World War. This was the Paris of artists such as Bonnard, Rodin, Seurat and Vuillard, as well as writers and musicians such as Debussy, Zola and Maupassant. The Eiffel Tower had just been built and the Moulin Rouge was in its heyday - Paris was the cosmopolitan capital of pleasure and culture. The architecture of the period, however, has generally been neglected known only for the Art Nouveau designs of Guimard's Metro entrances and restaurants such as Maxim's. This book, based on a thorough survey of Parisian buildings of the era, connects the medievalism of Viollet-le-Duc, the classical tradition of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and early developments in metal and concrete construction with modern pioneers like Perret, de Baudot and Sauvage. Including the exuberant designs by architects working in the 'Ritz style', as well as the work of a multitude of architects whose names are at present unknown, Parisian Architecture of the Belle Epoque is a truly comprehensive and visually sumptuous study of this under exposed period of architecture.
Age Of Opulence
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Author : Hebe Dorsey
language : en
Publisher: ABRAMS
Release Date : 1987
Age Of Opulence written by Hebe Dorsey and has been published by ABRAMS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with History categories.