Reconstructing Woman
From Fiction to Reality in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel
Samenvatting
Explores a scenario common to the works of four French novelists: Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and Valle's. This book reviews some of the contributing trends that attracted one or more of the authors: mesmerism, dissection, transformism and evolution, understandings of human reproduction, spontaneous generation, puericulture, the experimental method.

