{"product_id":"politics-and-narratives-of-birth-gynocolonization-from-rousseau-to-zola-hardback-9780521415866","title":"Politics and Narratives of Birth; Gynocolonization from Rousseau to Zola (Hardback) 9780521415866","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePolitics and Narratives of Birth\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGynocolonization from Rousseau to Zola\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA feminist analysis which combines a psychoanalytic perspective on catastrophic birth with the politics of reproduction in the emergent democracy of nineteenth-century France.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarol A. Mossman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521415866, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 April 1993\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.2 x 14.3 x 2 cm, 0.452 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Mossman's presentation, while demanding, rewards the reader by providing an innovative contribution to feminist criticism.  Her study has the merit of introducing a measure of balance to traditional interpretations of nineteenth-century fiction that focus on the father.\"   Hollie Markland Harder, Nineteenth-Century French Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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 by Michelet and Zola. Professor Mossman identifies important areas of interaction between production and reproduction at the level of aesthetic form and between private, birth-related discourse and the ideology of the birth of democracy. Within the context of the collapse of Ancien Régime France, the nascent ideology of motherhood collides with modes of discourse that invade and colonize the maternal body, generating a considerable burden of anxiety expressed in the nineteenth-century French novel.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e A note on translations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: conception of this book\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Stendhal: Delivering a Plot: 1. Death and transfiguration in the Vie de Henry Brulard\u003cbr\u003e 2. Palimpsest and pregnancy: reading across Stendhalian autobiography\u003cbr\u003e 3. Stendhalian fictions: plotting the unspeakable\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Production, Reproductions and Narrative Form: Adolphe: 4. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 5. The economy of production: the paternal and narrative form\u003cbr\u003e 6. Reproduction: (de)composing mother\u003cbr\u003e 7. Rebirth and the performance of matricide\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Gynocolonization: Rousseau, Michelet, Zolar and the Nineteenth-Century French Novel\u003cbr\u003e Section 1: 8. Introduction: toward a bodied politics\u003cbr\u003e 9. For unto us a son is born: Emile\u003cbr\u003e 10. Birthing the body politic: Du contrat social\u003cbr\u003e 11. The politic in the body Rousseau: Emile revisited and 'La Reigne Fantasque'\u003cbr\u003e Section 2: 12. Introduction: birth, motherhood and the disease of democracy\u003cbr\u003e 13. The flesh made word: Enfants du siècle and pathologies of reproduction in the nineteenth-century French novel\u003cbr\u003e 14. Liberty, equality, maternity: Michelet as body snatcher\u003cbr\u003e 15. Into Africa: Zola and gynocolonization\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007258513688,"sku":"9780521415866","price":77.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521415866i_acca48e6-8aa6-43b6-b39e-61f2c1f95aff.jpg?v=1691381360","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/politics-and-narratives-of-birth-gynocolonization-from-rousseau-to-zola-hardback-9780521415866","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}