Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille
Subjects:
Bataille, Georges--1897-1962--Characters--Mothers,
Fiction,
French Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism,
French Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism,
Mother And Child In Literature,
Motherhood In Literature,
Mothers In Literature,
Rachilde--1860-1953--Characters--Mothers,
Sand, George--1804-1876--Characters--Mothers,
Stendhal--1783-1842--Characters--Mothers
Combining psychoanalytic criticism, feminist theory, and literary analysis, Maternal Fictions offers a complex psychological portrait of these writers who managed at once to challenge patriarchal authority and at the same time attempt to return to the maternal.