The Evolution of the French courtesan novel : from de Chabrillan to Colette /: from de Chabrillan to Colette. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Courtney Sullivan.
• Authors: Sullivan, Courtney
• Contents: Dedication ; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The Case for the Courtesan Novel Sub-ƯGenre: Counter-Discourse and Intertextuality in de Chabrillan, de la Bigne, and de Pougy; The Courtesan Sub-Genre; Céleste de Chabrillan: The First Courtesan Novelist; De la Bigne: "La société qui me devait aide et protection, devint ma plus cruelle ennemie"; De Pougy's First Forays into Courtesan Fiction; Chapter 3: De Pougy's Innovative Courtesan Fiction; Chapter 4: Co-opting the Courtesan Persona in the Faux Mémoires de Rigolboche and the Les Usages du demi-monde. Les Mémoires de Rigolboche La Rigolbochomanie; The Backlash Against Rigolboche in the Press; Les Usages du demi-monde; Chapter 5: Colette's Courtesan Fiction: The Final Evolution; Codes of the Demi-Monde; La Fin de Chéri: The End of the Doomed Courtesan; Chapter 6: Conclusion; Works Cited; Index.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 813/.6; Literature; Courtesans -- France -- Fiction; FICTION -- General; Courtesans; Manners and customs; Literary Criticism -- European -- General; Fiction -- General; Literary Criticism -- General; Literature: history & criticism; Fiction & related items; European literature; Fiction; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; France -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; France; Electronic books; Fiction
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137597090; 1137597097
• Related ISBNs: 9781137597083
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 28, 2016).
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