Lucy Stone
Address: School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, The University of Manchester, M13 9PL
email: Lucy.Stone@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
PhD title: Manhood, Masculinity and French Women Writers in the Belle Époque
Supervisors:Professor Dee Reynolds and Dr Floriane Place-Verghnes
Main Discipline area: French Studies
Research specialism
My PhD project is a study of French women's novels in the period from 1890 to 1914, looking specifically at representations of manhood and masculinity in the work of Rachilde, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus and Marcelle Tinayre. Among the key concerns of the project is the relationship between textual representations and Belle Époque discourses of masculinity in crisis, with a focus on virility and the male body and the role of women in 'forming' men. I am currently developing a number of strands of research based around the subversion of normative masculine identities and the depiction of familial relationships.
My MA dissertation (2007) examined femininity, modernity and the city in Tinayre's Hellé (1899) and La Rebelle (1905).
Affiliation to Research Centres
- CRIVCOF (Conference organiser)
Professional biography
2007- present. PhD French Studies, University of Manchester.
2006-07: MA European Languages and Cultures (French Studies), University of Manchester.
1998-2002: BA (Hons) Modern History and French, St. Hugh's College, University of Oxford.