Table of Contents

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Science of Control

1. Transformation, Creation, and Inscription: Balzac

2. Women, Language, and Reality: Flaubert

3. Rewriting Reproduction: Zola

4. Villiers and Human Inscription

Conclusion: The Power of Language

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Dorothy Kelly is Professor of French at Boston University.

Reviews

"Reconstructing Woman is a very rich study, immensely suggestive, well researched, well written, and sophisticated in its scholarly approach. Because it is so elegantly argued and so intriguing, this study has the potential to open up new avenues of research." - Mary Donaldson-Evans, University of Delaware"