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Reconstructing Woman

- From Fiction to Reality in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel

About Reconstructing Woman

Explores a scenario common to the works of four French novelists: Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and Valle's. This book reviews some of the contributing trends that attracted one or more of the authors: mesmerism, dissection, transformism and evolution, understandings of human reproduction, spontaneous generation, puericulture, the experimental method.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780271032665
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 184
  • Published:
  • March 17, 2008
  • Dimensions:
  • 152x229x12 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 426 g.
Delivery: 2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: January 29, 2025

Description of Reconstructing Woman

Explores a scenario common to the works of four French novelists: Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and Valle's. This book reviews some of the contributing trends that attracted one or more of the authors: mesmerism, dissection, transformism and evolution, understandings of human reproduction, spontaneous generation, puericulture, the experimental method.

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