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Rachilde: Decadence, Gender and the Woman Writer » Read Now
by Diana Holmes. 231 pgs.

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Prosecuted for obscenity in her novel Monsieur Venus, Marguerite Eymery (pen name Rachilde), an apparently genteel young woman from a provincial bourgeois family, burst onto the French literary scene in 1884 amid scandal. This story of a sadistic transvestite and her pretty male lover was the first...
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Prosecuted for obscenity in her novel Monsieur Venus, Marguerite Eymery (pen name Rachilde), an apparently genteel young woman from a provincial bourgeois family, burst onto the French literary scene in 1884 amid scandal. This story of a sadistic transvestite and her pretty male lover was the first in a long series of novels, plays and stories dealing often in the most macabre and sensationalistic terms with sadism, gender inversion, and sexual desire.At the heart of the French literary world, Rachilde's life and writing defied patriarchal rules, particularly in relation to female sexuality, but she consistently and vehemently rejected feminism. Her extraordinary life and work, including a vast output as a literary reviewer, offer a prism through which to view the vibrant social and cultural history of France from the belle époque to the Second World War. This book is the first serious critical study of Rachilde's work. Exploring the interwoven themes of French naturalism, modernism, decadence and feminism, it will be essential reading for anyone interested in French culture, literature and sexuality at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille » Read Now
by Maryline Lukacher. 236 pgs.

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Combining psychoanalytic criticism, feminist theory, and literary analysis, Maternal Fictions offers a complex psychological portrait of these writers who managed at once to challenge patriarchal authority and at the same time attempt to return to the maternal.
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Neurosis and Narrative: The Decadent Short Fiction of Proust, Lorrain, and Rachilde » Read Now
by Rene A. Kingcaid. 228 pgs.

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Ventriloquized Bodies: Narratives of Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century France (Chap. 9 "Venus in Drag, or Redressing the Discourse of Hysteria: Rachilde's Monsieur Venus") » Read Now
by Janet Beizer. 298 pgs.

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Rachilde, Maurice Barres, and the Preface to Monsieur Venus, in The Romanic Review » Read Now
by Michael R. Finn. 16 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Psychology, Entire Library
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Perversion as Diversion: The Female Gaze in the Novels of Rachilde, in West Virginia University Philological Papers » Read Now
by Sylvie L.F. Richards. 6 pgs.

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library
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The Message from the Lighthouse: Rachilde's La Tour d'Amour, in Romance Quarterly » Read Now
by Robert Ziegler. 7 pgs.

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Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust: The Collection and Consumption of Curiosities (Chap. 7 "Fantastic and Decadent Floor-Plans in Gautier, Maupassant, Lorrain, and Rachilde") » Read Now
by Janell Watson. 229 pgs.

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Janell Watson shows how the sudden prominence given to curiosities and collecting in nineteenth-century literature signals a massive change in attitudes to the world of goods, which in turn restructured the literary text according to the practical logic of daily life, calling into question...
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Janell Watson shows how the sudden prominence given to curiosities and collecting in nineteenth-century literature signals a massive change in attitudes to the world of goods, which in turn restructured the literary text according to the practical logic of daily life, calling into question established scholarly notions of order. She traces the phenomenon from Balzac, who introduced it to canonical literature, through Flaubert, Zola, Rachilde and Lorrain, to Proust. Her study makes an important contribution to the literary history of material culture.
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Modern Drama by Women, 1880s-1930s: An International Anthology (Chap. 9 "Rachilde (Marguerite Eymery), 1860-1953: The Crystal Spider") » Read Now
by Katherine E. Kelly. 320 pgs.

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Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s offers the first direct evidence that women playwrights helped create the movement known as Modern Drama.It contains twelve plays by women from the Americas, Europe and Asia, spanning a national and stylistic range from Swedish realism to Russian symbolism. Six of...
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Modern Drama by Women 1880s-1930s offers the first direct evidence that women playwrights helped create the movement known as Modern Drama.It contains twelve plays by women from the Americas, Europe and Asia, spanning a national and stylistic range from Swedish realism to Russian symbolism. Six of these plays are appearing in their first English-language translation.Playwrights include:* Anne-Charlotte Leffler Edgren (Sweden)* Amelia Pincherle Rosselli (Italy)* Elsa Bernstein (Germany)* Elizabeth Robins (Britain)* Marie Leneru (France)* Alfonsia Storni (Argentina)* Hella Wuolijoki (Finland)* Hasegawa Shigure (Japan)* Rachilde (France)* Zinaida Gippius (Russia)* Djuna Barnes (USA)* Marita Bonner (USA)This groundbreaking anthology explodes the traditional canon. In these plays, the New Woman represents herself and her crises in all of the styles and genres available to the modern dramatist. Unprecedented in diversity and scope, it is a collection which no scholar, student or lover of modern drama can afford to miss.
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French Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Sourcebook ("Rachilde (1860-1953)" begins on p. 632) » Read Now
by Eva Martin Sartori, Dorothy Wynne Zimmerman. 632 pgs.

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Fifty-one essays cover the lives and works of the most important women writers in the history of French literature with an emphasis on their experiences as writers, a discussion of their major themes, and brief surveys of critical reactions. Each essay is followed by a bibliography of primary works...
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Fifty-one essays cover the lives and works of the most important women writers in the history of French literature with an emphasis on their experiences as writers, a discussion of their major themes, and brief surveys of critical reactions. Each essay is followed by a bibliography of primary works, a list of titles translated into English, and a selection of critical studies. An additional essay describes the trobairitz, the women troubadours of the 12th and 13th centuries. The volume ends with a chronology featuring the dates of events and trends of special significance to French women.
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