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Uneasy possessions : the mother-daughter dilemma in French women's writings, 1671-1928 / Katharine Ann Jensen.
LIBRA PQ149 .J46 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jensen, Katharine Ann, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- French literature--Women authors.
- Mothers and daughters in literature.
- Mothers in literature.
- Daughters in literature.
- Mothers and daughters--Psychology.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Mothers--Psychology.
- Mothers.
- Daughters--Psychology.
- Daughters.
- Physical Description:
- 450 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Introduction: sources of the dilemma
- Her mother's masterpiece: the Princesse de Cleves's singularity and the problem of recognition
- Letter writer, novelist manqué: Madame de Sévigné and the costs of maternal narcissism
- The irreproachable mother: Elisabeth Vigée Lebrun's self-assertions in Painting and Memoir
- Loving as a daughter: George Sand and the pain of self-denial
- Idealization and the haunted daughter in Colette's Break of day.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781936249114
- 1936249111
- OCLC:
- 653122786
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