@book {45591,
	title = {Thinking through the Mothers: Reimagining Women{\textquoteright}s Biographies},
	year = {2009},
	publisher = {Cornell University Press},
	organization = {Cornell University Press},
	abstract = {If questions of subjectivity and identification are at stake in all biographical writing, they are particularly trenchant for contemporary women biographers of women. Often, their efforts to exhume buried lives in hope of finding spiritual foremothers awaken maternal phantoms that must be embraced or confronted. Do women writing in fact have any greater access to their own mothers{\textquoteright} lives than to the lives of other women whose stories have been swept away like dust in the debris of the past?

In Thinking through the Mothers, Janet Beizer surveys modern women{\textquoteright}s biographies and contemplates alternatives to an approach based in lineage and the form of thought that emphasizes the line, the path, hierarchy, unity, resemblance, reflection, and the aesthetic-mimesis-that depends on these ideas. Through close readings of memoirs and fictions about mothers, Beizer explores how biographers of the women who came before rehearse and rewrite relationships to their own mothers biographically as they seek to appropriate the past in a hybrid genre she calls "bio-autography."

Thinking through the Mothers features the work of George Sand and Colette and spans such varied figures as Gustave Flaubert, Julian Barnes, Louise Colet, Eunice Lipton, Vladimir Nabokov, Huguette Bouchardeau, and Christa Wolf. Beizer seeks an alternative to women{\textquoteright}s "salvation biography" or "resurrection biography" that might resist nostalgia, be attentive to silence, and reinvent the means to represent the lives of precursors without appropriating traditional models of genealogy.},
	author = {Janet Beizer}
}
@inbook {54171,
	title = {Autonymies: Fran{\c c}ois la Fraise et le nom du corps},
	booktitle = {L{\textquoteright}Ecriture sandienne: pratiques et imaginaires},
	year = {2006},
	publisher = {Colloque de Cerisy, Presses Universitaires de Caen},
	organization = {Colloque de Cerisy, Presses Universitaires de Caen},
	author = {Janet Beizer}
}
@inbook {45626,
	title = {Encore {\textquoteleft}Adieu{\textquoteright}: de la repetition {\`a} la mort},
	booktitle = {L{\textquoteright}Ann{\'e}e Balzacienne},
	year = {2006},
	author = {Janet Beizer}
}
@inbook {54221,
	title = {D{\'e}voiler la momie: {\`a} la recherche de Kuchuk Hanem},
	booktitle = {Lieux litteraires},
	year = {2005},
	author = {Janet Beizer},
	editor = {Christine Plant{\'e}}
}
@article {54266,
	title = {Ecoute le chant du labourage: chant et travail de l{\textquoteright}{\'e}criture dans {\textquoteleft}Les veill{\'e}es du chanvreur{\textquoteright} de George Sand},
	journal = {Litt{\'e}rature},
	year = {2004},
	author = {Janet Beizer},
	editor = {Jacques Neefs and Martine Reid}
}
@inbook {54241,
	title = {History{\textquoteright}s Life Story: Nanon as L{\textquoteright}Histoire de ma vie},
	booktitle = {George Sand et l{\textquoteright}empire des lettres},
	year = {2004},
	publisher = {Presses Universitaires du Nouveau Monde},
	organization = {Presses Universitaires du Nouveau Monde},
	address = {New Orleans},
	author = {Janet Beizer},
	editor = {Anne E. McCall-Saint-Saens}
}
@inbook {45641,
	title = {History{\textquoteright}s Life Story: Nanon as L{\textquoteright}Histoire de ma vie},
	booktitle = {George Sand et l{\textquoteright}empire des lettres},
	year = {2004},
	publisher = {Presses Universitaires du Nouveau Monde},
	organization = {Presses Universitaires du Nouveau Monde},
	author = {Janet Beizer}
}
@article {54286,
	title = {One{\textquoteright}s Own: Reflections on Owning, Motherhood, and Adoption},
	journal = {Tulsa Studies in Women{\textquoteright}s Literature},
	volume = {21},
	year = {2002},
	author = {Janet Beizer}
}
@inbook {54376,
	title = {F/V: Notes sur Le Lys dans la vall{\'e}e},
	booktitle = {L{\textquoteright}Erotique balzacienne},
	year = {2001},
	publisher = {SEDES},
	organization = {SEDES},
	author = {Janet Beizer and J.M. Roulin},
	editor = {L. Frappier-Mazur}
}
@article {54311,
	title = {Au [del{\`a} du] Bonheur des dames: Notes from the Underground},
	journal = {Zola: Contemporary Perspectives (special issue of Australian Journal of French Studies)},
	year = {2001},
	author = {Janet Beizer}
}
@inbook {54416,
	title = {Writing Origins: George Sand as The Story of Our Life},
	booktitle = {Women Seeking Expression in France 1789-1914},
	year = {2000},
	publisher = {Monash French Studies},
	organization = {Monash French Studies},
	author = {Janet Beizer},
	editor = {Rosemary Lloyd}
}
@inbook {54396,
	title = {You Can{\textquoteright}t Judge a Book by its Cover: Teaching Le P{\`e}re Goriot and Modernism},
	booktitle = {Approaches to Teaching Balzac{\textquoteright}s Old Goriot},
	year = {2000},
	publisher = {MLA},
	organization = {MLA},
	author = {Janet Beizer},
	editor = {Michal Ginsburg}
}
@book {45616,
	title = {Ventriloquized Bodies: Narratives of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century France},
	year = {1994},
	publisher = {Cornell University Press},
	organization = {Cornell University Press},
	author = {Janet Beizer}
}
@book {45621,
	title = {Family Plots: Balzac{\textquoteright}s Narrative Generations},
	year = {1986},
	publisher = {Yale University Press},
	organization = {Yale University Press},
	author = {Janet Beizer}
}
