French Erotic Fiction: Women's Desiring Writing, 1880-1990

Victoria Best, Alex Hughes, Kate Ince

The Modern Language Review · 1997 · 12 citations · 0 references

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Monstrous women - Rachilde's erotic fiction, Diana Holmes Colette and the hidden woman - sexuality, silence, subversion, Margaret Callander desire and its discontents - Violette Leduc/La Batarde/the failure of love, Alex Hughes Sophie Menade - the wrting of Monique Wittig, Jennifer Birkett Helene Cixous - an erotics of the feminine, Emma Wilson L'amour la mort - the eroticism of Marguerite Duras, Kate Ince.