Monsieur Vénus: A Materialist Novel (Texts and Translations, 15, Band 15) - Softcover

 
9780873529303: Monsieur Vénus: A Materialist Novel (Texts and Translations, 15, Band 15)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0873529308 ISBN 13: 9780873529303
Verlag: MODERN LANGUAGE ASSN OF AMER, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamoured of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and eventually into her wife. Raoule's suitor, a cigar-smoking former hussar officer, becomes an accomplice in the complications that ensue.

A writer and cultural arbiter of a salon in France from the early 1880s until 1930, Rachilde (Marguerite Eymery) won celebrity with this scandalously decadent novel. An inversion of the Pygmalion story, the book was judged to be pornographic, and a Belgian court sentenced its author (in absentia) to two years in prison. Verlaine congratulated Rachilde on the invention of a new vice.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Melanie Hawthorne is Professor of French at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, with special emphasis on prose fiction of the "Decadent" period and on women writers. Melanie Hawthorne is Professor of French at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, with special emphasis on prose fiction of the "Decadent" period and on women writers. Liz Constable is Associate Professor in the Women and Gender Studies program at UC Davis. Her primary research areas focus on late nineteenth-century and twentieth century French and Francophone Cultural Studies and Film. She has published widely in these areas, including articles on Simone de Beauvoir and French women decadent writers.

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Verlag
MODERN LANGUAGE ASSN OF AMER
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0873529308
ISBN 13 
9780873529303
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
211
Herausgeber
Hawthorne Melanie, Constable Liz
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
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