Between Genders: Narrating Difference in Early French Modernism

by Nathaniel Wing

Overview

Wing (French studies, Louisiana State U.) explores how two novels, a novella, a pseudo-confession narrative, and an autobiography written and published in France during the early and middle 19th century represent gender in the bodies and desires of their protagonists. He finds that the actors in all the texts come to know their identities through the experience of sexuality. Excerpts are in French and English. Distributed by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780874138450
Publisher:	University Press Copublishing Division
Publication date:	02/01/2004
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	9
	Introduction	13
Part I	The Play of Gender
1.	"Vous etes sans doute tres surpris, mon cher d'Albert": Improvisation and Gender in Theophile Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin	29
2.	Androgyny, Hysteria, and the Poet in Charles Baudelaire's La Fanfarlo	51
Part II	Difference and Disbarment
3.	Admissions of Difference: Gender and Ethnicity in Ourika	77
4.	How Herculine's/Abel's Story Is Simplified: Bringing Truth to Sexuality in Herculine Barbin	103
Part III	Urban Body, Erotic Body
5.	Urban Body, Erotic Body: Balzac's La Fille aux yeux d'or	131
	Conclusions	166
	Notes	171
	Bibliography	198
	Index	202