The Hysteric's Revenge : French Women Writers at the Fin de Siecle /

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"This book argues, however, that the fear of sexual abandon--though real--veiled an even more insidious fear: that women might be capable of intellectual equality with men and thus pose a threat to the most basic structures of French patriarchal society. In demonstrating the pervasiveness of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mesch, Rachel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville, Tenn. : Vanderbilt University Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Schriftstellerin.
Fin de siecle.
Frans.
Bellettrie.
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Schriftstellerin
Fin de siecle
Women in literature.
Women and literature.
French literature > Women authors.
French literature.
Women and literature > France > History > 19th century.
French literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
French literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Frankreich.
Frankreich
France.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Literary science and the female subject : the brains behind Emile Zola's Nana
  • Memoirs of the Fille Publique
  • Virility and the intellectual woman : can a woman be a naturalist?
  • Can a woman be a decadent? : Rachilde, gender and the male body
  • The right to pleasure : sex and the sentimental novel.

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