Women Writing on the French Riviera

Travellers and Trendsetters, 1870-1970
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42875-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 442, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 554 g

Reihe: Faux Titre

Destination for artists and convalescents, playground of the rich, site of foreign allure, the French Riviera has long attracted visitors to its shores. Ranging through the late nineteenth century, the Belle Epoque, the ‘roaring twenties’, and the emancipatory post-war years, Rosemary Lancaster highlights the contributions of nine remarkable women to the cultural identity of the Riviera in its seminal rise to fame. Embracing an array of genres, she gives new focus to feminine writings never previously brought together, nor as richly critically explored. Fiction, memoir, diary, letters, even cookbooks and choreographies provide compelling evidence of the innovativeness of women who seized the challenges and opportunities of their travels in a century of radical social and artistic change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lancaster, Rosemary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Part 1: Art and Illness

1 Marie Bashkirtseff’s Quest for Glory: the Nice Years and After

Epilogue

2 ‘Ordered South’: Katherine Mansfield in Menton

Epilogue

Part 2: High Life on the Riviera

3 Fact and Fiction: Alice Williamson’s Monte Carlo

Epilogue

4 Bronislava Nijinska: The Ballets Russes Years

Epilogue

5 The Riviera and the Rich: Rebecca West’s The Thinking Reed (1936)

Epilogue

Part 3: The Mediterranean Idyll

6 Rebirth in Saint-Tropez: Colette’s Break of Day

Epilogue

7 An Invented Childhood: Honoria Murphy in Antibes

Epilogue

8 Flavours of the South: the Culinary Revolutions of Elizabeth David and Julia Child

Epilogue

Selective Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Rosemary Lancaster, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Western Australia, Chevalier des Palmes académiques, is the author of Je Suis Australienne, Remarkable Women in France, 1880-1945 (2008) and Poetic Illumination: René Char and his Artist Allies (2010).