Catholicism and children's literature in France

The comtesse de Segur (17991874)

By: Sophie Heywood, David Hopkin (Editor)

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Hardcover | 30 November 2011

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This is the first book-length history of the classic French children’s author, the Comtesse de Ségur. Virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, in France, Ségur is a national icon and a cultural phenomenon. Generations of children have grown up reading her stories. This book combines a discussion of her life, her works, and their reception with a broader analysis of the cultural context of the mid-nineteenth century. It offers a unique insight into the political engagement of Catholic women through the medium of children’s literature and education, and brings out new aspects of the history of publishing aimed at children, with particular reference to the market for books for girls. With its lively subject matter and accessible style, this book will appeal not only to scholars of nineteenth-century France, but also to specialists and students interested in the fields of children’s literature, gender studies, and religious history.

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A masterful essay...it will be impossible to claim knowledge of the comtesse de S©gur if you have not read Sophie Heywood's book

R©mi Saudray, review in Cahiers S©guriens, 10 (2012) pp. 161-167.

Heywood has made S©gur a figure of considerable interest to historians, not just biographers or literary scholars.

Sarah A. Curtis, French History, 2012

Winner of the 2012 University of Reading Research Endowment Trust Fund Best Research Output Prize

The strength of this informative and insightful book is its ability to contextualize the life story and the writings of the comtesse de S©gur without losing sight of the complexities that both present. Neither S©gur's life nor her writings were always consistent, yet in showing how they intersected with new ideas about childhood, a militant Catholic revival, new publishing strategies, and shifting notions of gender, Heywood hasmade S©gur a figure of considerable interest to historians, not just biographers or literary scholars.
Sarah A. Curtis, French History, vol 26, no 4, December 2012

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Non-Fiction Religion & Beliefs Christianity Christian Churches, Denominations, Groups Roman Catholicism Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Children's & Teenage Literature Studies History Regional & National History European History Literary Studies of Fiction

General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1800 to 1900 Classical Literary Studies General & World History

List of illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
List of abbreviations	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Life stories	p. 15
Nobles, saints, and delinquents: constructions of childhood in the collected works of Madame de Ségur	p. 51
The tribulations of an author: writing, censorship, and the reading public under the Second Empire	p. 86
The comtesse and the culture wars	p. 119
Model girls and divine women: reading the comtesse de Ségur	p. 152
Conclusion	p. 189
The collected works of the comtesse de Ségur	p. 194
Editions	p. 198
Select bibliography	p. 200
Index	p. 214
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