Diana Holmes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3674327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana Holmes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana |
| FAMILY NAME | Holmes |
| SIGNATURE | HOLMES D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9079-3582 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Occupation and resistance
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin. Charm Offensive
Martine Reid, Colette avant Colette
Flavien Falantin et Céline Hromadova, ' Bonjour tristesse', 1954-2024
Margaret Atack (1948-2023)
Journal Article Margaret Atack (1948–2023) Get access Diana Holmes, Diana Holmes [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9079-3582 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Max Silverman Max Silverman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, knae052, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knae052 Published: 28 March 2024
La Vagabonde assise – space, place and the meaning of home in Colette and other women writers
Nick Hewitt wrote wonderfully well about the significance of different places in French history and culture, and in our lives. Colette was a chronicler of places, from the famous childhood house and garden in Burgundy, to Brittany, Provence and of course Paris. But as her writing moves across regions and houses, home recurs as a crucial place in the emotional landscape of a human life. Nick was also always attentive to the relationship between ca…
Modelling Age
Annie Ernaux and Margaret Drabble, both now in their eighties, are writers who throughout their long careers have charted the life course of women of their generation. Ernaux's Les Années (2008) and Drabble's The Dark Flood Rises (2016) share a focus on late life and — I argue here — represent cases of what Kathleen Woodward once defined as a much-needed feminist remodelling of old age. In this comparative analysis, I identify elements shared acr…
Women’s Fiction in Postfeminist France
Women make up a significant majority of fiction readers, in France as elsewhere, and the novel has long been – and remains – a widely shared medium that both reflects and reflects on gender norms and their effects on women’s lives. My paper examines three contemporary female-authored novels covering the spectrum from ‘literary’ to popular fiction, each of which might be described as a postfeminist story for a postfeminist France. The texts are: C…
Gender and French Identity after the Second World War, 1944–54. Engendering Frenchness
Gender and French Identity after the Second World War, 1944–54. Engendering Frenchness Gender and French Identity after the Second World War, 1944–54. Engendering Frenchness. By Kelly Ricciardi Colvin. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic. 2017. vii + 247 pp. £28.99. ISBN: 978 1 3501 0555 3. Diana Holmes Diana Holmes University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 35, Issue 1…
Alain Resnais
Imagining the Popular in Contemporary French Culture
From Vichy to the Sexual Revolution Gender and Family Life in Postwar France
The decades between the Liberation and May 1968 in France have already been analysed in a number of illuminating socio-cultural studies, from Kristen Ross’s seminal Fast Cars, Clean Bodies to, most notably, Susan Weiner’s Enfants terribles on youth and femininity in the period’s mass media, and Richard Jobs’ Riding the New Wave, on the development of youth culture at a period when ‘new’ and ‘young’ became the emblematic adjectives of a self-consc…
Negotiating the middlebrow
This article examines the construction and functions of literary celebrity through the lens of a specific context, which may be termed ‘middlebrow’ women authors in contemporary France. Taking the two very different cases of bestselling novelists Anna Gavalda and Amélie Nothomb, the article examines the relationship between the textual qualities of each author’s work – the sine qua non of reader appeal and hence of celebrity itself – and the way …
Literary prizes, women, and the middlebrow
Annual literary prizes began life in 1903 in France with the founding of the Prix Goncourt, and they have proliferated there more than in other nations. Yet prizes are not always greeted by their recipient with unalloyed joy: an “antiprize rhetoric” is part of the standard response for to win the Goncourt, for example, “tient à la fois du banc d’infamie et de la légion d’Honneur,” as Sylvie Ducas puts it. Though of immense advantage to an author’…
Mapping modernity
Part of the remit of French Cultural Studies is surely to study the ‘littérature de grande consommation’ largely ignored by more canonical critical approaches, especially in France, but vital to the shaping of ideas and values. This article explores the aesthetics and function of the middlebrow novel ( roman de mœurs, roman d’idées) at the belle époque, the period when technology and cross-class demand for entertaining and instructive fictions co…
To write is a transitive verb
The Comfortable Reader
In France ‘immersive’ storytelling in the novel has long been associated with lowbrow fiction, and critically disparaged in favour of more self-reflexive, experimental forms. Recently, however, not only have critical debates begun to question the equation of literary value with the text’s ‘intransitivity’ (Barthes), but the massive success of certain contemporary novels has suggested a sharp divergence between critical orthodoxy and readers’ lite…
Stardom in Postwar France
The 1950s and 1960s were a key moment in the development of postwar France. The period was one of rapid change, derived from post-World War II economic and social modernization; yet many traditional characteristics were retained. By analyzing the eruption of the new postwar world in the context of a France that was both modern and traditional, we can see how these worlds met and interacted, and how they set the scene for the turbulent 1960s and 7…
Romance And Readership In Twentieth-Century France
Romance in modern times is the most widely read yet the most critically despised of genres. Associated almost entirely with women, as readers and as writers, its popularity has been argued by gender traditionalists to confirm women’s innate sentimentality, while feminist critics have often condemned the genre as a dangerous opiate for the female masses. This study adopts the more positive perspective of critics such as Janice Radway, and takes se…
Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity
This volume, Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity: Media, Film, Gender, Youth and Education , addresses a range of issues which underlie the notions of European identity. Among them are: what
European Memories of the Second World War
Short notices
BAUER, A. and RAUFER, X. (eds), Violences et insécurité urbaines, PUF ('Que sais‐je?'), 128 pp., 42 F., ISBN 2 13 049564 8 BIRKETT, J. and KEARNS, J., A Guide to French Literature, Macmillan, 1997, 361 pp., £14.99, ISBN 0 333 42854 4 CHAMBOST, E. de, La direction du PCF dans la clandestinité (1941–44): ‘Les cyclistes du Hurepoix‘, L'Harmattan, 1997, 317 pp., no price indicated, ISBN 2 7384 5515 8 PICKUP, I. and BARON, P. (eds), Aspects de la crit…
Colette, Beauvoir and the Change of Life
COLETTE, BEAUVOIR AND THE CHANGE OF LIFE Get access DIANA HOLMES DIANA HOLMES UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LIII, Issue 4, October 1999, Pages 430–443, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LIII.4.430 Published: 01 October 1999
Short Notices
Barrot, O. and Ory, P., La Revue Blanche. Histoire, anthologie, portraits , new edn. (U.G.E., 1994), 346pp. pbk. ‘Fins de siècles’ series Bonin, H., Les groupes financiers français (P.U.F., 1995), 127pp., 39F., ISBN 2 13 047251 6 Desalmand, P., Dansel, M. and Marson, P., Le grand livre des tests de culture générate (Marabout, 1995), 848pp., 99F., ISBN 2 501 02409 5 Duhamel, O. and Jaffre, J., L'état de l'opinion 1994 (SOFRES/Seuil, Paris, 1994), …
Short notices
Almanach des Français, 2 vols (Encyclopaedia Universalis, 1994), 319pp. and 316pp., 544F. Charmasson T., Lelorrain, A.‐M. and Sonnet, M., Chronologie de l'histoire de France (PUF, 1994), 876pp., 179F., ISBN 2 13 046139 5 Conseil national de la vie associative, Les Associations à l'épreuve de la décen‐ . tralisation: Bilan 1991–1992 (La Documentation Française, 1993), 245pp., 145F., ISBN 2 11 002974 9 Council of Europe, Population: French‐English …
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Colette
Creative Contradictions
Looking back, Colette perceived her childhood as a time of great happiness that radiated out from the safe centre of her mother's love to make the world beyond both secure and desirable. In her early fiction and in autobiographical texts rhapsodic images of girlhood contrast with the compromises and constraints of the adult woman, and since in Colette's own life a happy rural childhood ended with marriage to the faithless Willy and an attendant m…
Short Notices
Barrot, O. and Ory, P., La Revue Blanche. Histoire, anthologie, portraits , new edn. (U.G.E., 1994), 346pp. pbk. ‘Fins de siècles’ series Bonin, H., Les groupes financiers français (P.U.F., 1995), 127pp., 39F., ISBN 2 13 047251 6 Desalmand, P., Dansel, M. and Marson, P., Le grand livre des tests de culture générate (Marabout, 1995), 848pp., 99F., ISBN 2 501 02409 5 Duhamel, O. and Jaffre, J., L'état de l'opinion 1994 (SOFRES/Seuil, Paris, 1994), …
Short notices
Almanach des Français, 2 vols (Encyclopaedia Universalis, 1994), 319pp. and 316pp., 544F. Charmasson T., Lelorrain, A.‐M. and Sonnet, M., Chronologie de l'histoire de France (PUF, 1994), 876pp., 179F., ISBN 2 13 046139 5 Conseil national de la vie associative, Les Associations à l'épreuve de la décen‐ . tralisation: Bilan 1991–1992 (La Documentation Française, 1993), 245pp., 145F., ISBN 2 11 002974 9 Council of Europe, Population: French‐English …
Short notices
Apollinaire, G., Alcools, trans. Donald Revell (University Press of New England, 1995), 171pp., £20.50 hbk., ISBN 0 8195 2224 4, £10.75 pbk, ISBN 0 8195 1228 1 Bredin, J.‐D., L'Affaire (Fayard/Julliard, 1993), 856pp., 198F. Burac, R., Charles Péguy. La révolution et lagrâce (Laffont, 1994), 347pp., 139F. Freeman, E.T., Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac (Glasgow Introductory Guides 34, 1995 76pp., £3.95, ISBN 0 85261 467 5 French Pocket Dictionary, Engl…
European Memories of the Second World War
Short notices
BAUER, A. and RAUFER, X. (eds), Violences et insécurité urbaines, PUF ('Que sais‐je?'), 128 pp., 42 F., ISBN 2 13 049564 8 BIRKETT, J. and KEARNS, J., A Guide to French Literature, Macmillan, 1997, 361 pp., £14.99, ISBN 0 333 42854 4 CHAMBOST, E. de, La direction du PCF dans la clandestinité (1941–44): ‘Les cyclistes du Hurepoix‘, L'Harmattan, 1997, 317 pp., no price indicated, ISBN 2 7384 5515 8 PICKUP, I. and BARON, P. (eds), Aspects de la crit…
Colette, Beauvoir and the Change of Life
COLETTE, BEAUVOIR AND THE CHANGE OF LIFE Get access DIANA HOLMES DIANA HOLMES UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume LIII, Issue 4, October 1999, Pages 430–443, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/LIII.4.430 Published: 01 October 1999
Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity
This volume, Why Europe? Problems of Culture and Identity: Media, Film, Gender, Youth and Education , addresses a range of issues which underlie the notions of European identity. Among them are: what
Romance And Readership In Twentieth-Century France
Romance in modern times is the most widely read yet the most critically despised of genres. Associated almost entirely with women, as readers and as writers, its popularity has been argued by gender traditionalists to confirm women’s innate sentimentality, while feminist critics have often condemned the genre as a dangerous opiate for the female masses. This study adopts the more positive perspective of critics such as Janice Radway, and takes se…
Stardom in Postwar France
The 1950s and 1960s were a key moment in the development of postwar France. The period was one of rapid change, derived from post-World War II economic and social modernization; yet many traditional characteristics were retained. By analyzing the eruption of the new postwar world in the context of a France that was both modern and traditional, we can see how these worlds met and interacted, and how they set the scene for the turbulent 1960s and 7…
To write is a transitive verb
The Comfortable Reader
In France ‘immersive’ storytelling in the novel has long been associated with lowbrow fiction, and critically disparaged in favour of more self-reflexive, experimental forms. Recently, however, not only have critical debates begun to question the equation of literary value with the text’s ‘intransitivity’ (Barthes), but the massive success of certain contemporary novels has suggested a sharp divergence between critical orthodoxy and readers’ lite…
Mapping modernity
Part of the remit of French Cultural Studies is surely to study the ‘littérature de grande consommation’ largely ignored by more canonical critical approaches, especially in France, but vital to the shaping of ideas and values. This article explores the aesthetics and function of the middlebrow novel ( roman de mœurs, roman d’idées) at the belle époque, the period when technology and cross-class demand for entertaining and instructive fictions co…
Negotiating the middlebrow
This article examines the construction and functions of literary celebrity through the lens of a specific context, which may be termed ‘middlebrow’ women authors in contemporary France. Taking the two very different cases of bestselling novelists Anna Gavalda and Amélie Nothomb, the article examines the relationship between the textual qualities of each author’s work – the sine qua non of reader appeal and hence of celebrity itself – and the way …
Literary prizes, women, and the middlebrow
Annual literary prizes began life in 1903 in France with the founding of the Prix Goncourt, and they have proliferated there more than in other nations. Yet prizes are not always greeted by their recipient with unalloyed joy: an “antiprize rhetoric” is part of the standard response for to win the Goncourt, for example, “tient à la fois du banc d’infamie et de la légion d’Honneur,” as Sylvie Ducas puts it. Though of immense advantage to an author’…
Imagining the Popular in Contemporary French Culture
From Vichy to the Sexual Revolution Gender and Family Life in Postwar France
The decades between the Liberation and May 1968 in France have already been analysed in a number of illuminating socio-cultural studies, from Kristen Ross’s seminal Fast Cars, Clean Bodies to, most notably, Susan Weiner’s Enfants terribles on youth and femininity in the period’s mass media, and Richard Jobs’ Riding the New Wave, on the development of youth culture at a period when ‘new’ and ‘young’ became the emblematic adjectives of a self-consc…
Alain Resnais
Gender and French Identity after the Second World War, 1944–54. Engendering Frenchness
Gender and French Identity after the Second World War, 1944–54. Engendering Frenchness Gender and French Identity after the Second World War, 1944–54. Engendering Frenchness. By Kelly Ricciardi Colvin. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic. 2017. vii + 247 pp. £28.99. ISBN: 978 1 3501 0555 3. Diana Holmes Diana Holmes University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 35, Issue 1…
Women’s Fiction in Postfeminist France
Women make up a significant majority of fiction readers, in France as elsewhere, and the novel has long been – and remains – a widely shared medium that both reflects and reflects on gender norms and their effects on women’s lives. My paper examines three contemporary female-authored novels covering the spectrum from ‘literary’ to popular fiction, each of which might be described as a postfeminist story for a postfeminist France. The texts are: C…
La Vagabonde assise – space, place and the meaning of home in Colette and other women writers
Nick Hewitt wrote wonderfully well about the significance of different places in French history and culture, and in our lives. Colette was a chronicler of places, from the famous childhood house and garden in Burgundy, to Brittany, Provence and of course Paris. But as her writing moves across regions and houses, home recurs as a crucial place in the emotional landscape of a human life. Nick was also always attentive to the relationship between ca…
Modelling Age
Annie Ernaux and Margaret Drabble, both now in their eighties, are writers who throughout their long careers have charted the life course of women of their generation. Ernaux's Les Années (2008) and Drabble's The Dark Flood Rises (2016) share a focus on late life and — I argue here — represent cases of what Kathleen Woodward once defined as a much-needed feminist remodelling of old age. In this comparative analysis, I identify elements shared acr…
Margaret Atack (1948-2023)
Journal Article Margaret Atack (1948–2023) Get access Diana Holmes, Diana Holmes [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9079-3582 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Max Silverman Max Silverman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, knae052, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knae052 Published: 28 March 2024
Occupation and resistance
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