Miller-Frank, Felicia: The Mechanical Song: Women, Voice, and the Artificial in Nineteenth-Century French Narrative

This is an absorbing study that brings together work in psychoanalysis, the history of opera, and nineteenth-century literature in such a way that each area is illumined by the others. (The author) deals resourcefully and informatively with an intriguing question of great interest to cultural and literary historians and to feminist and psychoanalytic critics.--Ross Chambers, University of Michigan