Writing with a Vengeance: The Countess de Chabrillan's Rise from Prostitution

Carol A. Mossman

Published by University of Toronto Press 2009

Writing with a Vengeance

The Countess de Chabrillan's Rise from Prostitution

Carol A. Mossman

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442697775

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Writing with a Vengeance examines the life and works of a nineteenth-century French courtesan, Céleste Vénard, later the Countess de Chabrillan.

Author / Editor information

Mossman Carol A. :

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

Reviews

Briana Lewis:
‘The biographical, historical, and literary contexts Mossman provides not only create a rich backdrop for her main subject of study, but they also serve as a broader introduction to the period, such that Writing with Vengeance is supremely accessible, suitable even for undergraduates or others with little prior familiarity with the period.’

Rachel Mesch:
‘In this vibrantly written book, Mossman introduces readers to both a fascinating historical figure and an unexplored female author who offers an important vantage point through which to consider key questions in nineteenth-century French history and literature… In recounting Chabriillan’s unfamiliar story, Mossman succeeds in introducing readers to a fascinating character whose life offers myriad windows into crucial axes of nineteenth-century culture.’

Mary Evans:
Fascinating study of the life and times of the Countess de Chabrillan Mossman is to be applauded for writing an account of a woman who was not destroyed by the deviant aspects of her life. The Countess Chabrillan, rather than colluding with those forms of misogynist fiction that preferred to condemn the prostitute, was a testament to the ability of women to demonstrate their many possible realities.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One. Chabrillan’s Contexts: Biographical, Historical, Literary
1. The Wages of Shame Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2. Worlds Apart: Mapping Prostitution and the Demi-monde Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3. Fictions of Prostitution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
Part Two. Chabrillan and the Uses of Fiction
4. La Sapho, or Staging Vengeance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
5. Plotting Exoneration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
6. Chabrillan’s Final Novels, or The Uses of Fiction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 224

eBook

Published: December 31, 2009
ISBN: 9781442697775