La Comtesse de Ségur
Subtitle: A Marquise de Sade?
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9780820442549
Subjects: Segur, Sophie; European - French; Women Authors; French Novel And Short Story; Women In Literature; Literary Criticism; 1799-1874; Books and reading; Children; Children's literature, French; Criticism and interpretation; France; History and criticism; Punishment in literature; Segur, Sophie,; comtesse de,
Description: "Was La Comtesse de Segur a sadist, as many critics have suggested: True, there are as many whips in her novels as in a torture chamber. The pages are filled with illustrations befitting of sado-masochistic fantasies: cruel parents, and guardians flagellating half-naked children. This in-depth study is a defense of this misunderstood and misrepresented nineteenth-century French author.

It explores specific accusations of sadism against Segur and reinterprets the violent scenes in her novels against the backdrop of these accusations."--BOOK JACKET.