This highly original and elegantly persuasive argument may well be one ofthe most important revisions of nineteenthcentury French literary history tohave appear... » 

This highly original and elegantly persuasive argument may well be one ofthe most important revisions of nineteenthcentury French literary history tohave appeared in the past five years.Margaret Waller Pomona CollegeThisis literary history and cultural analysis of striking significance. . . . Itprovides a remarkable example of feminist rethinking of classic problems inliterary and cultural history. . . .Richard Terdiman University ofCalifornia Santa Cruz «