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Uneasy possessions : the mother-daughter dilemma in French women's writings, 1671-1928 / Katharine Ann Jensen.

Title
Uneasy possessions : the mother-daughter dilemma in French women's writings, 1671-1928 / Katharine Ann Jensen.
Author
Jensen, Katharine Ann, 1957-
Publication
Newark : University of Delaware Press, c2011.

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450 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • French literature > History and criticism
  • Mothers and daughters in literature
  • Mothers in literature
  • Daughters in literature
  • Mothers and daughters > Psychology
  • Mothers > Psychology
  • Daughters > Psychology
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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
9781611490381 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010031772
OCLC
653122786
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library