Reconstructing Woman: From Fiction to Reality in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel
(Part of the Penn State Romance Studies Series)
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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,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0271032677
ISBN13:9780271032672
Release Date:November 2007
Publisher:Penn State University Press
Length:184 Pages
Weight:0.62 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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