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Félicité de Genlis: Motherhood in the Margins
Bonnie Arden Robb
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Description for Félicité de Genlis: Motherhood in the Margins
Hardback. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 644.
This book examines the way in which French writer/educator Félicité de Genlis theorized the maternal role in her works, as well as the manner in which she lived out her own maternity. Illuminating her construction of a politics of motherhood that contributed to her marginalization, the book studies her controversial self-referentiality and investigates the relationships between her life and her works, between her extreme productivity and debated creativity, and between socially endorsed maternal roles and the less conventional manifestations she presented and invested with virtue in her writings. It also considers the originality of her literary matriarchy, analyzing her theory ... Read more
This book examines the way in which French writer/educator Félicité de Genlis theorized the maternal role in her works, as well as the manner in which she lived out her own maternity. Illuminating her construction of a politics of motherhood that contributed to her marginalization, the book studies her controversial self-referentiality and investigates the relationships between her life and her works, between her extreme productivity and debated creativity, and between socially endorsed maternal roles and the less conventional manifestations she presented and invested with virtue in her writings. It also considers the originality of her literary matriarchy, analyzing her theory ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
250
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611493351
SKU
V9781611493351
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Ref
99-15
About Bonnie Arden Robb
Bonnie Arden Robb is associate professor of French at the University of Delaware.
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