The Evolution of the French Courtesan Novel From de Chabrillan to Co
‘Sullivan’s outstanding book is the first to show how French courtesans were fully-fledged masters of the pen as well as proverbial ladies of the night. We learn how their rewriting of classics such as The Lady of the Camellias and their response to a mal
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Courtney Sullivan
The Evolution of the French Courtesan Novel
Courtney Sullivan
The Evolution of the French Courtesan Novel From de Chabrillan to Colette
Courtney Sullivan Arts & Sciences Washburn University of Topeka Topeka, Kansas, USA
ISBN 978-1-137-59708-3 ISBN 978-1-137-59709-0 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59709-0
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I wish to share my gratitude to the Editor of Women in French Studies for allowing me to incorporate a revised version of “The Case for the Courtesan Novel Sub-Genre: Counter-Discourse and Intertextuality in de Chabrillan, de la Bigne, and de Pougy” into this book. The 2013 article appeared in Volume 21. I would like to express my most sincere gratitude to Kelly Erby, Vanessa Steinroetter, and Kerry Wynn, my colleagues at Washburn University who have helped provide thoughtful feedback on this project these past few years. Their encouragement and suggestions always buoyed me up when I would hit a wall. I would like to thank Tom Prasch and Howard Faulkner as well for reading early drafts of Chap. 2. I am grateful to the members of Women in French who have offered me priceless feedback and suggestions for improving my work at conferences throughout the years. A special thanks to Nancy Arenberg for recommending Suzette Henke’s Shattered Subjects to me and for Melanie Hawthorne’s suggestion that I approach the project from the perspective of a sex worker. I would also like to thank Washburn University for granting me an academic sabbatical
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