Title: La Comtesse de Ségur
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Books and reading, Children's literature, French, Punishment in literature, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Children, France, biography, Children's literature, history and criticism, French literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Punishment, france
Places: France
People: Sophie Ségur comtesse de (1799-1874)
LC classification: PQ2427.S5 Z7 1999