Uneasy possessions
Subtitle: the mother-daughter dilemma in French women's writings, 1671-1928
By: Katharine Ann Jensen
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9781936249114
Subjects: Mothers in literature; Psychology; Mothers; Mothers and daughters in literature; Daughters in literature; History and criticism; French literature; Women authors; Mothers and daughters; Daughters
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: sources of the dilemma; title: Her mother's masterpiece: the Princesse de Cleves's singularity and the problem of recognition; title: Letter writer, novelist manqué: Madame de Sévigné and the costs of maternal narcissism; title: The irreproachable mother: Elisabeth Vigée Lebrun's self-assertions in Painting and Memoir; title: Loving as a daughter: George Sand and the pain of self-denial; title: Idealization and the haunted daughter in Colette's Break of day.