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

About the author

Dorothy Kelly is Professor of French at Boston University.

Summary

Explores a scenario common to the works of four major French novelists of the nineteenth century: Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and Villiers. Here, 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.

Product details

• Authors: Dorothy (Boston University) Kelly, Kelly Dorothy
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.11.2007
• EAN: 9780271032672
• ISBN: 978-0-271-03267-2
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 195 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Series: Penn State Romance Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; French, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form