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The Evolution of the French Courtesan Novel - From de Chabrillan to Colette (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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The Evolution of the French Courtesan Novel - From de Chabrillan to Colette (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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'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.
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