LEADER 03706nam 2200697 450 001 9910458410803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-9719-9 010 $a1-4426-9777-6 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442697775 035 $a(CKB)2560000000054061 035 $a(OCoLC)759157332 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10442555 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000488553 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11314845 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000488553 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10450520 035 $a(PQKB)11728698 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672944 035 $a(CEL)433759 035 $a(CaBNvSL)slc00226112 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3272767 035 $a(DE-B1597)465234 035 $a(OCoLC)1013946703 035 $a(OCoLC)944176536 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442697775 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672944 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258595 035 $a(OCoLC)958515049 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000054061 100 $a20160926h20092009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWriting with a vengeance $ethe Countess de Chabrillan's rise from prostitution /$fCarol Mossman 210 1$aToronto, Ontario ;$aBuffalo, New York ;$aLondon, England :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2009. 210 4$d©2009 215 $a1 online resource (210 p.) 225 1 $aUniversity of Toronto Romance Series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-9691-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIllustrations -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart One. Chabrillan's Contexts: Biographical, Historical, Literary -- $t1. The Wages of Shame -- $t2. Worlds Apart: Mapping Prostitution and the Demi-monde -- $t3. Fictions of Prostitution -- $tPart Two. Chabrillan and the Uses of Fiction -- $t4. La Sapho, or Staging Vengeance -- $t5. Plotting Exoneration -- $t6. Chabrillan's Final Novels, or The Uses of Fiction -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aWriting with a Vengeance examines the life and works of a nineteenth-century French courtesan, Céleste Vénard, later the Countess de Chabrillan. A notorious Paris courtesan, Chabrillan married into the nobility, taught herself to write (penning two series of memoirs) and, upon being widowed, wrote novels to support herself - ten, between 1857 and 1885. These novels and memoirs constitute exceptional literary and historical documents, particularly as very few sex workers before the twentieth century have left written records of their lives.Writing with a Vengeance intertwines the courtesan's autobiographical account of the horrors of her life on the streets with that era's political, medical, and cultural discourses surrounding prostitution. Though French society both silenced and refused to pardon the prostitute, Carol Mossman's literary analysis of Chabrillan's novels contends that it is through the process of writing itself that she arrived at self-forgiveness and ultimately refashioned for her damaged self a new identity and narrative. 410 0$aUniversity of Toronto romance series. 606 $aWomen authors, French$y19th century$vBiography 606 $aCourtesans$zFrance$vBiography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWomen authors, French 615 0$aCourtesans 676 $a843/.8 700 $aMossman$b Carol A.$0916919 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458410803321 996 $aWriting with a vengeance$92055571 997 $aUNINA