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Politics and Narratives of Birth: Gynocolonization from Rousseau to Zola: 41 (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 41) - Softcover

Mossman, Carol A.

 
9780521030984: Politics and Narratives of Birth: Gynocolonization from Rousseau to Zola: 41 (Cambridge Studies in French, Series Number 41)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521030986 ISBN 13: 9780521030984
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

A feminist analysis which combines a psychoanalytic perspective on catastrophic birth with the politics of reproduction in the emergent democracy of nineteenth-century France.

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Review

"Mossman's presentation, while demanding, rewards the reader by providing an innovative contribution to feminist criticism. Her study has the merit of introducing a measure of balance to traditional interpretations of nineteenth-century fiction that focus on the father." Hollie Markland Harder, Nineteenth-Century French Studies

Book Description

This book is a feminist analysis which combines a psychoanalytic perspective on catastrophic birth with the politics of reproduction in the emergent democracy of nineteenth-century France. It focuses on three major thinkers whose personal relation to origins is problematic, Rousseau, Constant and Stendhal, and also includes a broad reading of the nineteenth-century novel within the frame of pathological generation, giving special attention to works by Michelet and Zola.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521030986
ISBN 13 
9780521030984
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
272