@article{762999,
      recid = {762999},
      author = {Sullivan, Courtney,},
      title = {The Evolution of the French courtesan novel : from de  Chabrillan to Colette /},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/762999},
}