Writing With a Vengeance: The Coutess De Chabrillan's Rise from Prostitution - Rilegato

Mossman, Carol

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ISBN 10: 0802096913 ISBN 13: 9780802096913

Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr, 2009

Riassunto

Writing with a Vengeance examines the life and works of a nineteenth-century French courtesan, Céleste Vénard, later the Countess de Chabrillan. A notorious Paris courtesan, Chabrillan married into the nobility, taught herself to write (penning two series of memoirs) and, upon being widowed, wrote novels to support herself - ten, between 1857 and 1885. These novels and memoirs constitute exceptional literary and historical documents, particularly as very few sex workers before the twentieth century have left written records of their lives.

Writing with a Vengeance intertwines the courtesan's autobiographical account of the horrors of her life on the streets with that era's political, medical, and cultural discourses surrounding prostitution. Though French society both silenced and refused to pardon the prostitute, Carol Mossman's literary analysis of Chabrillan's novels contends that it is through the process of writing itself that she arrived at self-forgiveness and ultimately refashioned for her damaged self a new identity and narrative.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Carol Mossman is Professor of French and Director of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Toronto Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0802096913
• ISBN 13: 9780802096913
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 195
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile