Reconstructing Woman: From Fiction to Reality in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel

Reconstructing Woman: From Fiction to Reality in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel Explores a scenario common to the works of four French novelists: Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and Valles. 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. Autor: Dorothy (Boston University) Kelly Wydawnictwo: Pennsylvania State University Press Rok wydania: 2008 Okładka: twarda Liczba stron: 184 Wymiary: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm Ilustracje: 0 Illustrations Język: angielski ISBN: 9780271032665