| Description |
1 online resource (178 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Romance studies
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Penn State Romance studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-170) and index. |
| Contents |
The science of control -- Transformation, creation, and inscription: Balzac -- Women, language, and reality: Flaubert -- Rewriting reproduction: Zola -- Villiers and human inscription -- The power of language. |
| Summary |
Annotation 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 prefers instead his artificial re-creation of her. All four authors also portray the possibility that this simulacrum, which replaces the woman, could become real. The central chapters examine this plot and its meanings in multiple texts of each author (with the exception of the chapter on Villiers, in which only LEve future is considered). The premise is that this shared scenario stems from the discovery in the nineteenth century that humans are transformable. Because scientific innovations play a major part in this discovery, Dorothy Kelly reviews some of the contributing trends that attracted one or more of the authors. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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French fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Women in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Sex role in literature. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kelly, Dorothy, 1952- Reconstructing woman. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2007 9780271032665 0271032669 (DLC) 2007019589 (OCoLC)124539064 |
| ISBN |
9780271034966 (electronic book) |
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0271034963 (electronic book) |
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9780271054803 (electronic book) |
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0271054808 (electronic book) |
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0271049448 |
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9780271049441 |
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0271022248 |
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9780271022246 |
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9780271032665 |
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0271032669 |
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9780271032672 |
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0271032677 |
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