Reconstructing Woman : : From Fiction to Reality in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel / / Dorothy Kelly.
Reconstructing Woman explores a scenario common to the works of four major French novelists of the nineteenth century: Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and Villiers. 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...
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