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Reconstructing Woman: From Fiction to Reality in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel - Penn State Romance Studies
Kelly, Dorothy (Boston University)
Reconstructing Woman: From Fiction to Reality in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel - Penn State Romance Studies
Kelly, Dorothy (Boston University)
Explores a scenario common to the works of four French novelists: Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and Valle's. This book reviews some of the contributing trends that attracted one or more of the authors: mesmerism, dissection, transformism and evolution, understandings of human reproduction, spontaneous generation, puericulture, the experimental method.
184 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | March 18, 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9780271032665 |
Publishers | Pennsylvania State University Press |
Pages | 184 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 12 mm · 426 g |
Language | English |
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