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Rachilde - Decadence, Gender and the Woman Writer (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
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Rachilde - Decadence, Gender and the Woman Writer (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
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Prosecuted for obscenity in her novel Monsieur Venus, Marguerite
Eymery (pen name Rachilde), an apparently genteel young woman from
a provincial bourgeois family, burst onto the French literary scene
in 1884 amid scandal. This story of a sadistic transvestite and her
pretty male lover was the first in a long series of novels, plays
and stories dealing often in the most macabre and sensationalistic
terms with sadism, gender inversion, and sexual desire.
At the heart of the French literary world, Rachilde's life and
writing defied patriarchal rules, particularly in relation to
female sexuality, but she consistently and vehemently rejected
feminism. Her extraordinary life and work, including a vast output
as a literary reviewer, offer a prism through which to view the
vibrant social and cultural history of France from the belle epoque
to the Second World War. This book is the first serious critical
study of Rachilde's work. Exploring the interwoven themes of French
naturalism, modernism, decadence and feminism, it will be essential
reading for anyone interested in French culture, literature and
sexuality at the turn of the twentieth century.
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