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

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

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Uneasy possessions

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bibliography

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653122786

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Katharine Ann Jensen

Sub title

the mother-daughter dilemma in French women's writings, 1671-1928

Table Of 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

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