Author: Alexandre DumasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
La femme de Claude (The wife of Claude)
Author: Alexandre DumasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Claude's Wife (La Femme de Claude)
Author: Alexandre DumasQuarto Series
Author: The Marriage Question in the Modern French Drama (1850-1911)
Author: Charles Edmund YoungPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
The Evolution of the French Courtesan Novel
Author: Courtney SullivanPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137597097
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
‘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, Céleste 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.
Current Literature
Author: Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870–1920
Author: Karen OffenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316991598
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 711
Book Description
Karen Offen offers a magisterial reconstruction and analysis of the debates around relations between women and men, how they are constructed, and how they should be organized, that raged in France and its French-speaking neighbors from 1870 to 1920. The 'woman question' encompassed subjects from maternity and childbirth, and the upbringing and education of girls to marriage practices and property law, the organization of households, the distribution of work inside and outside the household, intimate sexual relations, religious beliefs and moral concerns, government-sanctioned prostitution, economic and political citizenship, and the politics of population growth. The book shows how the expansion of economic opportunities for women and the drop in the birth rate further exacerbated the debates over their status, roles, and possibilities. With the onset of the First World War, these debates were temporarily placed on hold, but they would be revived by 1916 and gain momentum during France's post-war recovery.
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
Philology and Literature Series
Author: University of WisconsinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Depressions
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Author: