Marguerite Eymery - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

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Rachilde: Decadence, Gender and the Woman Writer

Book by Diana Holmes; Berg, 2001

Subjects:

Decadence In Literature, Eroticism In Literature, Rachilde--1860-1953

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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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The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature

Book by Eva Martin Sartori, Colette H. Winn, Perry Gethner, Samia I. Spencer, Juliette Parnell-Smith, Mary Rice-DeFosse, Susan Ireland, Patrice J. Proulx; Greenwood Press, 1999

Subjects:

Feminism And Literature--Encyclopedias, French Literature--Encyclopedias, French Literature--Women Authors--Encyclopedias, Women Authors, French--Biography--Encyclopedias, Women In Literature--Encyclopedias

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The earliest known literary productions by women living in Europe were probably by French writers. French women have contributed enormously to world literature for centuries, but only a few have been judged worthy of recognition by mostly male critics. As part of the feminist move to reclaim women ...
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The earliest known literary productions by women living in Europe were probably by French writers. French women have contributed enormously to world literature for centuries, but only a few have been judged worthy of recognition by mostly male critics. As part of the feminist move to reclaim women writers and to rethink literary history, scholars have given growing amounts of attention to French women writers and their substantial contribution. This reference book provides extensive information about French women writers and the world in which they lived. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries for authors, genres, literary movements, institutions, events, and organizations related to French literature. Each entry summarizes feminist thought on the topic, and provides bibliographical information. The volume begins with a feminist history of French literature and concludes with a selected bibliography and a chronological list of French women writers.
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Maternal Fictions: Stendhal, Sand, Rachilde, and Bataille

Book by Maryline Lukacher; Duke University Press, 1994

Subjects:

Bataille, Georges--1897-1962--Characters--Mothers, Fiction, French Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, French Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, Mother And Child In Literature, Motherhood In Literature, Mothers In Literature, Rachilde--1860-1953--Characters--Mothers, Sand, George--1804-1876--Characters--Mothers, Stendhal--1783-1842--Characters--Mothers

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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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Modern Drama by Women, 1880s-1930s: An International Anthology

Book by Katherine E. Kelly; Routledge, 1996

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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

Book by Eva Martin Sartori, Dorothy Wynne Zimmerman; Greenwood Press, 1991

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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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