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

Writing with a Vengeance : : The Countess de Chabrillan's Rise from Prostitution / / Carol A. Mossman.

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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. A notorious Paris courtesan, Chabrillan married into the nobility, taught herself to write (penning two series of memoirs) and, upon being widowed, wrote n...

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Mossman, Carol A.,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2009
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Part One. Chabrillan's Contexts: Biographical, Historical, Literary
  • 1. The Wages of Shame
  • 2. Worlds Apart: Mapping Prostitution and the Demi-monde
  • 3. Fictions of Prostitution
  • Part Two. Chabrillan and the Uses of Fiction
  • 4. La Sapho, or Staging Vengeance
  • 5. Plotting Exoneration
  • 6. Chabrillan's Final Novels, or The Uses of Fiction
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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