Politics and Narratives of Birth Gynocolonization from Rousseau to Zola

This book is a feminist analysis which combines a psychoanalytic perspective on catastrophic birth with the politics of reproduction in the emergent democracy of nineteenth-century France. It focuses on three major thinkers whose personal relation to origins is problematic, Rousseau, Constant and Stendhal, and also includes a broad reading of the nineteenth-century novel within the frame of pathological generation, giving special attention to works by Michelet and Zola.Mossman, Carol A. is the author of 'Politics and Narratives of Birth Gynocolonization from Rousseau to Zola' with ISBN 9780521415866 and ISBN 0521415861.