Between genders : narrating difference in early French modernism / Nathaniel Wing.

Author/creator Wing, Nathaniel, 1938-
Format Book
Publication InfoNewark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, ©2004.
Description206 pages ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
French literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
Gender identity in literature.

Contents "Vous êtes sans doute très surpris, mon cher d'Albert" : improvisation and gender in Théophile Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin -- Androgyny, hysteria, and the poet in Charles Baudelaire's La Fanfarlo -- Admissions of difference: gender and ethnicity in Ourika -- How Herculine's/Abel's story is simplified: bringing truth to sexuality in Herculine Barbin -- Urban body, erotic body: Balzac's La fille aux yeux d'or.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 198-201) and index.
LCCN 2003007960
ISBN0874138450 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PQ283 .W56 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold