Maid and Mistress : Feminine Solidarity and Class Difference in Five Nineteenth-Century French Texts
by
Susan Yates
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0820412481
ISBN-13
9780820412481
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 1st, 1992
Print length
204 Pages
Weight
466 grams
Dimensions
16.10 x 23.80 x 1.60 cms
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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. The book concludes with an analysis of relations between maid and mistress, shown as governed sometimes by the laws of class difference, but also, in several of these texts, by a profoundly felt feminine complicity.
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