Open AccessLiterary Figures of ‘New Women’ in the Early Twentieth Century
Author(s) -
Anne Tomiche
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
sociopoétiques
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2497-3610
DOI - 10.52497/sociopoetiques.772
Subject(s) - the imaginary , reading (process) , literature , forge , history , art , philosophy , psychoanalysis , linguistics , psychology , materials science , forging , metallurgy
Based on a comparative reading of Virginia Woolf’s second novel, Night and Day (1919), where one of the main characters is a suffragist, and of Victor Margueritte’s La Garçonne (1922), whose title explicitly indicates the status of the protagonist as a flapper, this article explores figures of “new women” insofar as they are literary representations of social realities and insofar as such representations draw from a collective imaginary which they also contribute to forge. I