Search Results - "Woman"

A woman at thirty / by Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850

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"Woman, your hour is sounding" continuity and change in French women's Great War fiction, 1914-1919 / by Goldberg, Nancy Sloan

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Les liaisons dangereuses by Laclos, Choderlos de, 1741-1803

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Finding the woman who didn't exist the curious life of Gisele d'Estoc / by Hawthorne, Melanie

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Portraits of the Artist as a Young Woman : Painting and the Novel in France and Britain, 1800-1860 / by Wettlaufer, Alexandra

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Madame de Staël, novelist : the emergence of the artist as woman / by Gutwirth, Madelyn

Between the queen and the cabby Olympe de Gouges's Rights of woman / by Cole, John R. (John Richard), 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A translation of The rights of woman -- The dedication. Gouges's devotion to the king and defence of the queen ; Marie-Antoinette's reputation and the counter-revolution -- The declaration. …”
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Alias Olympia a woman's search for Manet's notorious model & her own desire / by Lipton, Eunice

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Having it all in the Belle Epoque how French women's magazines invented the modern woman / by Mesch, Rachel

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A vindication of the rights of men A vindication of the rights of woman ; An historical and moral view of the French Revolution / by Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797

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Chanteuse in the city the realist singer in French film / by Conway, Kelley, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Caf-conc' : the rise of the unruly woman -- Music hall Miss -- Voices from the past -- The revue star and the realist singer : the return of the unruly woman -- Violent spectatorship : mechanical reproduction, the female voice, and the imaginary of intimacy -- Conclusion.…”
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The Cramoisy queen a life of Caresse Crosby / by Hamalian, Linda

Table of Contents: “…Spunky little rich girl -- Polly meets Harry -- How Polly became Caresse -- A woman of many trades -- Treasures for the Black Sun Press -- The death of Harry Crosby -- Business or pleasure -- Atlantic crossings -- Mind over matter -- Old friends, new friends -- A woman of influence -- Back in the avant-garde -- Mondialization -- Fame -- A thirty-year plan -- How to run a castle -- Keeping the faith.…”
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Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun the odyssey of an artist in an age of revolution / by May, Gita

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Feminism, absolutism, and Jansenism Louis XIV and the Port Royal nuns / by Kostroun, Daniella J., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Jansenism as a "woman problem" -- Controversy and reform at Port Royal -- Jansenism's political turn, 1652-1661 -- The limits to obedience, 1661-1664 -- A feminist response to absolutism, 1664-1669 -- The unsettled peace, 1669-1679 -- A royal victory, 1679-1709.…”
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Fictions of Authority : Women Writers and Narrative Voice / by Lanser, Susan Sniader, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…Toward a feminist poetics of narrative voice -- The rise of the novel, the fall of the voice: Juliette Catesby's silencing -- In a class by herself: self-silencing in Riccoboni's Abeille -- Sense and reticence: Jane Austen's "Indirections" -- Woman of Maxims: Geoge Eliot and the realist imperative -- Fictions of absence: feminism, modernism, Virginia Woolf -- Unspeakable voice: Toni Morrison's postmodern authority -- Dying for publicity: Mistriss Henley's self-silencing -- Romantic voice: the hero's text -- Jane Eyre's legacy: the powers and dangers of singularity -- African-American personal voice: "her hungriest lack" -- Solidarity and silence: Millenium Hall and The wrongs of woman -- Single resistances: the communal "I" in Gaskell, Jewett, and Audoux -- (Dif)fusions: modern fiction and communal form -- Full circle: Les Guerilleres.…”
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Institutionalizing Gender : Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France / by Hewitt, Jessie, 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Gender and the founding "fathers" of French psychiatry -- Medical controversy and honor among (mad)men -- Domesticating madness in the family asylum -- Scandalous asylum commitments and patriarchal power -- Rehabilitating a profession under siege -- Reforming the asylum and reimagining the family -- The "mad" woman in a man's world.…”
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Romance and readership in twentieth century France by Holmes, Diana, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…A feminine genre, romance and women -- Passion, piety, and the new woman: romantic fiction at the Belle Epoque -- Reaction and resistance, romance in the 1930's and under the Occupation -- Love in a brave new world, romance in the 1950's -- Romance after feminism -- Love in a postmodern age, contemporary romance in France.…”
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French socialists before Marx workers, women, and the social question in France / by Pilbeam, Pamela M., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: 1 Plural socialism -- 2 The social question -- 3 Revolutionary inspirations -- 4 Religion and the early socialists -- 5 Socialists and education: to repulse the barbarians -- 6 The "new woman" -- 7 Association: dream worlds -- 8 Worker associations before 1848 -- 9 Association: socialist hopes in the Second Republic -- 10 Association: the conservative reaction in the Second Republic -- 11 Conclusion.…”
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Frères Ennemis : The French in American Literature, Americans in French Literature / by Cloonan, William J.

Table of Contents: “…The creation of the American in Paris: the American -- The splendor and misery of the American scientist: L'Ève future -- The American woman and the invention of Paris: The Custom of the Country -- The expatriate idyll: The Sun Also Rises -- Truths and delusions: the Cold War in Les Mandarins -- Embracing American culture: Cherokee -- An American Excursion into French fiction: The Book of Illusions -- Rerouting: Ça n'existe pas l'Amérique -- L'Américaine in Paris: Le Divorce.…”
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Romantic Catholics : France's postrevolutionary generation in search of a modern faith / by Harrison, Carol E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : romantic Catholics and the two Frances -- First communion : the most beautiful day in the lives and deaths of little girls -- The education of Maurice de Guérin -- The dilemma of obedience : Charles de Montalembert, Catholic citizen -- Pauline Craven's holy family : writing the modern saint -- Frédéric and Amélie Ozanam : charity, marriage, and the Catholic social -- A free church in a free state : the Roman question -- Epilogue : the devout woman of the Third Republic and the eclipse of Catholic fraternity.…”
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