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  • The Evolution of the French courtesan novel[electronic resource] :from de Chabrillan to Colette /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 843.7093552
    書名/作者: The Evolution of the French courtesan novel : from de Chabrillan to Colette // by Courtney Sullivan.
    作者: Sullivan, Courtney.
    出版者: London : : Palgrave Macmillan UK :, 2016.
    面頁冊數: ix, 121 p. : : digital ;; 22 cm.
    Contained By: Springer eBooks
    標題: Courtesans - Fiction. - France
    標題: French fiction - History and criticism. - 19th century
    標題: Literature.
    標題: Nineteenth-Century Literature.
    標題: European Literature.
    標題: Fiction.
    標題: Literary History.
    標題: France - Social life and customs - 21st century.
    ISBN: 9781137597090
    ISBN: 9781137597083
    內容註: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 -- The Case for the Courtesan Novel Sub-Genre: Counter-Discourse and Intertextuality in de Chabrillan, de la Bigne, and de Pougy -- 2. De Pougy's Innovative Courtesan Fiction -- 3. Co-Opting the Courtesan Persona in the Faux Memoires de Rigolboche and Les Usages du demi-monde -- 4. Colette's Courtesan Fiction: The Final Evolution -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
    摘要、提要註: 'Sullivan's outstanding book is the first to show how French courtesans were fully-fledged masters of the pen as well as proverbial ladies of the night. We learn how their rewriting of classics such as The Lady of the Camellias and their response to a male "backlash" inspire Colette in previously unseen ways.' -- Nicholas White, University of Cambridge, UK This book is about the autobiographical fictions of nineteenth-century French courtesans. In response to damaging representations of their kind in Zola and Alexandre Dumas' novels, Celeste de Chabrillan, Valtesse de la Bigne, and Liane de Pougy crafted fictions recounting their triumphs as celebrities of the demi-monde and their outcries against the social injustices that pushed them into prostitution. Although their works enjoyed huge success in the second half of the nineteenth century, male writers penned faux-memoirs mocking courtesan novels, and successfully sowed doubt about their authorship in a backlash against the profitable notoriety the novels earned these courtesans. Colette, who did not write from personal experience but rather out of sympathy for the courtesans with whom she socialized, innovated the genre when she wrote three novels exploring the demi-mondaine's life beyond prostitution and youth.
    電子資源: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59709-0
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