- Description
- 450 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781936249114 (alk. paper)
- 1936249111 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010031772
- OCLC
- YBP 2010031772
- Author
Jensen, Katharine Ann, 1957-
- Title
Uneasy possessions : the mother-daughter dilemma in French women's writings, 1671-1928 / Katharine Ann Jensen.
- Imprint
Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.