Between genders
Subtitle: narrating difference in early French modernism
By: Nathaniel Wing.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Newark; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Gender identity in literature.
Description: "Between Genders: Narrating Difference in Early French Modernism studies representations of gender in five early and mid-nineteenth-century French texts. The narratives examined are diverse in both literary form and theme: two novels, Honore de Balzac's La Fille aux yeux d'or, Theophile Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin; Charles Baudelaire's novella, La Fanfarlo; Claire de Duras's pseudo-confession narrative, Ourika; and an autobiography of an intersexual, currently known by the title Herculine Barbin.

They share a preoccupation with experiences of gender and the vicissitudes of gender identities. Between Genders explores a pervasive yet frequently veiled crisis of authority throughout the century, regarding who or what institution might determine "correct" gender relations, and what these values might imply in aesthetic, ethical, and frequently political issues."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-201) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Vous êtes sans doute très supris, mon cher s'Albert": improvisation and gender in Théophile Gautier's Mademoiselle de Maupin; title: Androgyny, hysteria, and the poet in Charles Baudelaire's La Fanfarlo; title: Admissions of difference: gender and ethnicity in Ourika; title: How Herculine's/Abel's story is simplified: bringing truth to sexuality in Herculine Barbin; title: Urban body, erotic body: Balzac's La fille aux yeux d'or.