Reconstructing woman from fiction to reality in the nineteenth-century novel
Reconstructing Woman explores a scenario common to the works of four major French novelists of the nineteenth century: Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and Villiers. In the texts of each author, a “new Pygmalion” (as Balzac calls one of his characters) turns away from a real woman he has loved or desired and...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
Penn State University Press
[2007]
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| Colección: | Penn State Romance studies.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009701633306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Science of Control
- 1 Transformation, Creation, and Inscription: Balzac
- 2 Women, Language, and Reality: Flaubert
- 3 Rewriting Reproduction: Zola
- 4 Villiers and Human Inscription
- Conclusion: The Power of Language
- Bibliography
- Index
