Politics and Narratives of Birth: Gynocolonization from Rousseau to Zola

by Carol A. Mossman

Book Overview

This book is a feminist analysis which combines a psychoanalytic perspective on catastrophic birth with the politics of reproduction in the emergent democracy of nineteenth-century France. It focuses on three major thinkers whose personal relation to origins is problematic, Rousseau, Constant and Stendhal, and also includes a broad reading of the nineteenth-century novel within the frame of pathological generation, giving special attention to works...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521030986
• ISBN13: 9780521030984
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"