Resurrecting Jane De La Vaudère

Author : Sharon Larson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271094755

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Resurrecting Jane de La Vaudère by Sharon Larson Pdf

This engrossing narrative recounts the story of Jane de La Vaudère (née Jeanne Scrive), a prolific and celebrated writer of France’s Belle Époque. Interweaving biography and literary analysis, Sharon Larson examines the ways in which La Vaudère adapted her persona to shifting literary trends and readership demands—and how she created and profited from controversy. Relatively unknown today, La Vaudère published more than forty novels, poetry collections, and dramatic works as well as hundreds of shorter pieces. A controversial figure who was known as a plagiarist, La Vaudère attracted the attention of the public and of her peers, who caricatured her in literary periodicals and romans à clef. Most notably, La Vaudère claimed to have written the Rêve d’Egypte pantomime, whose 1907 production at the Moulin Rouge featured a kiss between Missy and Colette that led to riots and the suspension of future performances. Larson scrutinizes the ensemble of these various media constructions, privileging La Vaudère’s self-representation in interviews and advertisements, and brings to light her agency in creating an image that captivated public attention and boosted sales of her writings. An engrossing examination of La Vaudère’s life and work, this volume probes the quandaries of scholarship seeking to responsibly recover lost female voices and makes a long-overdue contribution to nineteenth-century French literary studies.

Author : Sharon Larson
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271094748

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Resurrecting Jane de La Vaudère by Sharon Larson Pdf

This engrossing narrative recounts the story of Jane de La Vaudère (née Jeanne Scrive), a prolific and celebrated writer of France’s Belle Époque. Interweaving biography and literary analysis, Sharon Larson examines the ways in which La Vaudère adapted her persona to shifting literary trends and readership demands—and how she created and profited from controversy. Relatively unknown today, La Vaudère published more than forty novels, poetry collections, and dramatic works as well as hundreds of shorter pieces. A controversial figure who was known as a plagiarist, La Vaudère attracted the attention of the public and of her peers, who caricatured her in literary periodicals and romans à clef. Most notably, La Vaudère claimed to have written the Rêve d’Egypte pantomime, whose 1907 production at the Moulin Rouge featured a kiss between Missy and Colette that led to riots and the suspension of future performances. Larson scrutinizes the ensemble of these various media constructions, privileging La Vaudère’s self-representation in interviews and advertisements, and brings to light her agency in creating an image that captivated public attention and boosted sales of her writings. An engrossing examination of La Vaudère’s life and work, this volume probes the quandaries of scholarship seeking to responsibly recover lost female voices and makes a long-overdue contribution to nineteenth-century French literary studies.

Author : Gilbert-Augustin Thierry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 164525013X

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Reincarnation and Redemption by Gilbert-Augustin Thierry Pdf

Gathered together and translated into English for the first time by Brian Stableford, the current volume contains three bizarre novellas of the paranormal by Gilbert-Augustin Thierry (1843-1915), originally published in periodicals of the day. Written when the author was heavily involved with the French Occult Revival, these feverish tales of reincarnation and redemption are prime examples of an intriguing and much-ignored subspecies of supernatural fiction, and, plunging readers directly into an imaginative environment of suspended disbelief, lack neither in narrative verve nor flamboyance.

Author : Anne E. Linton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009063012

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Unmaking Sex by Anne E. Linton Pdf

During the nineteenth century, words like 'intersex' and 'trans' had not yet been invented to describe individuals whose bodies, or senses of self, conflicted with binary sex. But that does not mean that such people did not exist. In nineteenth-century France, case studies filled medical journals, high-profile trials captured headlines, and doctors staked their reputations on sex determinations only to have them later reversed by colleagues. While medical experts fought over what separated a man from a woman, novelists began to explore debates about binary sex and describe the experiences of gender-ambiguous characters. Anne Linton discusses over 200 newly-uncovered case studies while offering fresh readings of literature by several famous writers of the period, as well as long-overlooked popular fiction. This landmark contribution to the history of sexuality is the first book to examine intersex in both medicine and literature, sensitively relating historical 'hermaphrodism' to contemporary intersex activism and scholarship.

Author : Karen Offen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107188044

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Debating the Woman Question in the French Third Republic, 1870-1920 by Karen Offen Pdf

A magisterial reconstruction and analysis of the heated debates around the 'woman question' during the French Third Republic.

Author : Kari Weil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Animals and civilization
ISBN : 9780226686370

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Precarious Partners by Kari Weil Pdf

"Kari Weil's new book takes readers back to an era when horses were an inescapable part of daily life and when horse ownership became an increasingly realizable dream, not just for soldiers, but for middle-class (bourgeois) boys and girls. It charts the rise of the horse as an integral part of daily life in Paris (as work, sport, and food) and the social, political, and affective changes that brought about and followed from the presence of horses on streets and in parks, in the show ring and race track, and even on plates. It also ably traces a rise in "equestrian rhetoric," whose sexual, class, and racial inflections were influenced both by Anglomania and by colonialist attraction to the "hot-blooded" horses of Arab countries. Moving between literature, painting, natural philosophy, popular cartoons, sport manuals, and tracts of public hygiene, this book seeks to understand the changing relations to horses who straddled conceptions of pet and livestock, existing between objects of affection, on the one hand, and material as well as symbolic capital, on the other"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 972 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Books
ISBN : UOM:39015079607761

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New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Books
ISBN : HARVARD:32044092564855

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The New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jane Desmarais,David Weir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108592406

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Decadence and Literature by Jane Desmarais,David Weir Pdf

Decadence and Literature explains how the concept of decadence developed since Roman times into a major cultural trope with broad explanatory power. No longer just a term of opprobrium for mannered art or immoral behaviour, decadence today describes complex cultural and social responses to modernity in all its forms. From the Roman emperor's indulgence in luxurious excess as both personal vice and political control, to the Enlightenment libertine's rational pursuit of hedonism, to the nineteenth-century dandy's simultaneous delight and distaste with modern urban life, decadence has emerged as a way of taking cultural stock of major social changes. These changes include the role of women in forms of artistic expression and social participation formerly reserved for men, as well as the increasing acceptance of LGBTQ+ relationships, a development with a direct relationship to decadence. Today, decadence seems more important than ever to an informed understanding of contemporary anxieties and uncertainties.

Author : Liz Constable,Dennis Denisoff,Matthew Potolsky
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812216783

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Perennial Decay by Liz Constable,Dennis Denisoff,Matthew Potolsky Pdf

When Oscar Wilde was convicted of gross indecency in 1895, a reporter for the National Observer wrote that there was "not a man or a woman in the English-speaking world possessed of the treasure of a wholesome mind who is not under a deep debt of gratitude to the marquis of Queensberry for destroying the high Priest of the Decadents." But reports of the death of decadence were greatly exaggerated, and today, more than one hundred years after the famous trial and at the beginning of a new millennium, the phenomenon of decadence continues to be a significant cultural force. Indeed, "decadence" in the nineteenth century, and in our own period, has been a concept whose analysis yields a broad set of associations. In Perennial Decay, Emily Apter, Charles Bernheimer, Sylvia Molloy, Michael Riffaterre, Barbara Spackman, Marc Weiner, and others extend the critical field of decadence beyond the traditional themes of morbidity, the cult of artificiality, exoticism, and sexual nonconformism. They approach the question of decadence afresh, reevaluating the continuing importance of late nineteenth-century decadence for contemporary literary and cultural studies.

Author : Montague Summers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Vampires
ISBN : UOM:39015058014237

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The Vampire by Montague Summers Pdf

Author : Elina Gertsman
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271089010

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The Absent Image by Elina Gertsman Pdf

Winner of the 2022 Charles Rufus Morey Award from the College Art Association Guided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum. Medieval art, according to modern scholars, abhors the same. The notion of horror vacui—the fear of empty space—is thus often construed as a definitive feature of Gothic material culture. In The Absent Image, Elina Gertsman argues that Gothic art, in its attempts to grapple with the unrepresentability of the invisible, actively engages emptiness, voids, gaps, holes, and erasures. Exploring complex conversations among medieval philosophy, physics, mathematics, piety, and image-making, Gertsman considers the concept of nothingness in concert with the imaginary, revealing profoundly inventive approaches to emptiness in late medieval visual culture, from ingenious images of the world’s creation ex nihilo to figurations of absence as a replacement for the invisible forces of conception and death. Innovative and challenging, this book will find its primary audience with students and scholars of art, religion, physics, philosophy, and mathematics. It will be particularly welcomed by those interested in phenomenological and cross-disciplinary approaches to the visual culture of the later Middle Ages.

Author : JANE. DE LA VAUDERE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1943813647

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The Double Star by JANE. DE LA VAUDERE Pdf

Jane de La VaudÈre was one of the most unusual writers of the fin de siÈcle, renowned both for her scandalously scabrous Parisian novels, and her accounts of moeurs antiques, some of which--notably Le MystÈre de Kama (1901)--set new standards of excess. Presented here is her first volume of short stories to be available in English, superbly translated by Brian Stableford: nine extravagant tales of hypnotism and magic, reincarnation and vengeance, animal tamers and necrophilia. Sublimely Gothic, exquisitely hallucinatory, these strange, fatalistic pieces by La VaudÈre are surely a landmark in the annals of the fantastic.

Author : JANE. DE LA VAUDERE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1943813620

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The Demi-Sexes and the Androgynes by JANE. DE LA VAUDERE Pdf

Presented here in English for the first time, in a bravura translation by Brian Stableford, are two highly unusual novels from one of the fin-de-siÈcle's most eccentric writers. The Demi-Sexes, originally published in 1897, was the first of Jane de La VaudÈre's novels seriously to explore the territory of the conventionally unmentionable, which it does forthrightly, in its first chapter, when its heroine, Camille, asks a doctor, in secret, for "an operation." The Androgynes, first published in 1903, a tale of faithfulness and fickleness amidst the vicious rivalries of the literary and artistic worlds, presents a lush and decadent Paris, replete with cross-dressers, opium smoking, and a provocative miscellany of amour. Intensely interesting and intriguing, with their zestful mixture of tragic lamentation and ostentatious outrage, The Demi-Sexes and The Androgynes remain captivatingly readable and are sure to be found daring even by today's standards.

Author : Alvan F. Sanborn
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664577757

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Paris and the Social Revolution by Alvan F. Sanborn Pdf

"No, the author is not a revolutionist, but he is acquainted with plenty of good fellows who are. "He has eaten their bread and salt; he has drunk their water and wine." He has taken pot-luck with them, witnessed their privations, and listened to the telling of their dreams. He thinks he comprehends them, he knows he loves them, and he would present them as he has found them to the world." French author Alvan F. Sanborn writes this historical novel as a study of the revolutionary elements in France. It provides an insight as to how revolution has impacted different classes of Parisian society.