San Antonio College Library

How a nation educates its children tells us much about the values of its people. From the Salon to the Schoolroom examines the emerging secondary school system for girls in nineteenth-century France and uncovers how that system contributed to the fashioning of the French bourgeois woman. Rebecca Rogers explores the variety of schools--religious and lay--that existed for girls and paints portraits of the women who ran them and the girls who attended...

With its intricate network of parallels and oppositions, A Life reflects the influence of Flaubert and also expresses Maupassant's characteristic naturalistic vision--the satire of bourgeois manners, the representation of the aristocracy in pathological decline, undermining of human individuality and ideals, and the study of deterioration and disintegration.

"How could women in postrevolutionary France act politically when they lacked political rights, and how could they support an exclusively masculine republicanism? This is a study of four female authors who wrote women into politics and into republicanism by articulating a model of republican womanhood between the two poles of feminist equality and republican motherhood." "These four writers were George Sand, Marie d'Agoult, Hortense Allart, and Delphine...