Maid and Mistress

Author : Susan Yates

Hardback

Published : Friday 1 May 1992

ISBN : 9780820412481

Price : €52.24

Description

This interdisciplinary study, which combines the sociohistorical approach with insights from feminist literary criticism, sheds new light on male bourgeois mythologies in nineteenth-century French society. Drawing on texts by Balzac, Flaubert, Maupassant, Zola, and the Goncourt brothers, the author examines contemporary constructions of women as reflected in the portrayal of the humble «bonne à tout faire», from Père Grandets «pearl» of a servant, Grande Nanon, to the «sluts» of Zolas Pot-Bouille. The book concludes with an analysis of relations between maid and mistress, shown as governed sometimes by the laws of class difference, but also, in several of these texts, by a profoundly felt feminine complicity.

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