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9780520221413

The New Biography

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520221413

  • ISBN10:

    0520221419

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-09-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

This collection offers new perspectives on the lives of eight famous women in nineteenth century France. Their stories are used as a starting point through which the contributing authors experiment with what is called "the new biography."

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
vii
Preface ix
Introduction: Constructing Selves in Historical Perspective 1(32)
Jo Burr Margadant
The Duchesse de Berry and Royalist Political Culture in Postrevolutionary France
33(39)
Jo Burr Margadant
``Playing the Princess'': Flora Tristan, Performance, and Female Moral Authority during the July Monarchy
72(27)
Susan Grogan
Republican Women and Republican Families in the Personal Narratives of George Sand, Marie d'Agoult, and Hortense Allart
99(38)
Whitney Walton
Clotilde de Vaux and the Search for Identity
137(34)
Mary Pickering
Acting Up: The Feminist Theatrics of Marguerite Durand
171(47)
Mary Louise Roberts
Private Life, Public Image: Motherhood and Militancy in the Self-Construction of Nelly Roussel, 1900--1922
218(45)
Elinor A. Accampo
Bibliography 263(22)
Contributors 285(2)
Index 287

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