Product Description: German artist Tomma Abts (born 1967) creates her paintings and drawings using a rigorous process that combines the rational with the intuitive. Starting with no external source material and no preconceived idea of the final result, Abts makes complex abstract compositions that ultimately take as their subject the process of their own creation...read more

Product Description: 1ST EDITION, Hardcover, issued w/o dust jacket, published by Cornell University Press. An examination of hysteria in 19th century French literary and cultural contexts. Contents: Introduction; Part One: Medical Stories chapters on: The Textual Woman and the Hysterical Novel: To Open the Question; The Doctor's Tale: Nineteenth-Century Medical Narratives of Hysteria; Reading Women: The Novel in the Text of Hysteria...read more

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Product Description: This interdisciplinary study, which combines the sociohistorical approach with insights from feminist literary criticism, sheds new light on male bourgeois mythologies in nineteenth-century French society. Drawing on texts by Balzac, Flaubert, Maupassant, Zola, and the Goncourt brothers, the author examines contemporary constructions of women as reflected in the portrayal of the humble «bonne à tout faire», from Père Grandet's «pearl» of a servant, Grande Nanon, to the «sluts» of Zola's Pot-Bouille...read more

Breaking the Chain: Women, Theory, and French Realist Fiction (Gender and Culture)