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Writing with a vengeance : the Countess de Chabrillan's rise from prostitution /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mossman, Carol A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2009]
Series:University of Toronto romance series.
Subjects:
Chabrillan, Céleste Vénard de, > comtesse, > 1824-1909.
Chabrillan, Céleste Vénard de, > comtesse, > 1824-1909 > Criticism and interpretation.
Authors, French > 19th century > Biography.
French literature > 19th century > Criticism and interpretation.
Courtesans > France > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • The wages of shame
  • Worlds apart: mapping prostitution and the demi-monde
  • Fictions of prostitution
  • La Sapho, or staging vengeance
  • Plotting exoneration
  • Chabrillan's final novels, or the uses of fiction.