The Evolution of the French courtesan novel : from de Chabrillan to Colette / Courtney Sullivan.
Sullivan, Courtney, author.
2016
PS3619.U43
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Title
The Evolution of the French courtesan novel : from de Chabrillan to Colette / Courtney Sullivan.
Author
Sullivan, Courtney, author.
ISBN
9781137597090 (electronic book)
1137597097 (electronic book)
9781137597083
Published
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
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1 online resource.
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PS3619.U43
Dewey Decimal Classification
813/.6
Summary
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, Céleste 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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Dedication ; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The Case for the Courtesan Novel Sub-­Genre: 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

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