Author: MOSSMAN, Carol A.
Title: Politics and Narratives of Birth. Gynocolonization from Rousseau to Zola.
Description: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Hardcover. Condition vg in dj. Combines a psychoanalytic perspective on catastrophic birth with the politics of reproduction in the emergent democracy of 19th-century France. Focuses on 3 major thinkers whose personal relation to origins is problematic - Rousseau, Constant, and Stendhal - and also includes a broad reading on the 19th-century novel within the frame of pathological generation, giving special attention to works by Michelet & Zola. 259pp.

Keywords: analysis history france french literay literature theory criticism reproduction ideology