Reconstructing woman
Subtitle: gender and scientific thought in nineteenth-century French narrative
By: Dorothy Kelly.
Series: Penn State studies in Romance literatures
Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780271032665; 9780271032672
Subjects: French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Women in literature; Sex role in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The science of control; title: Transformation, creation, and inscription: Balzac; title: Women, language, and reality: Flaubert; title: Rewriting reproduction: Zola; title: Villiers and human inscription; title: The power of language.