Mossman, Carol A.

Writing with a vengeance : the Countess de Chabrillan's rise from prostitution / Carol Mossman. - Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource (195 pages) : illustrations. - University of Toronto romance series .

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



9781442697195


Chabrillan, Céleste Vénard de, comtesse, 1824-1909.
Chabrillan, Céleste Vénard de, comtesse, 1824-1909 --Criticism and interpretation.


Women authors, French--19th century--Biography.
Courtesans--France--Biography.
Prostitutes in literature.
Prostitution in literature.


Electronic Books.

PQ2204 / .W758 2009