Reconstructing Woman: Gender and Scientific Thought in Nineteenth-Century French Narrative
Dorothy KellyTitle and Copyright Pages
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Science of Control
Chapter 1. Transformation, Creation, and Inscription: Balzac
Chapter 2. Women, Language, and Reality: Flaubert
Chapter 3. Rewriting Reproduction: Zola
Chapter 4. Villiers and Human Inscription
Conclusion: The Power of Language
Bibliography
Index