Female friendship and fraternité in the prostitute memoir novels of eighteenth-century France

This essay explores a long-neglected novel, La Cauchoise, ou Mémoires d’une courtisane célèbre (César Ribié, 1783) and its depiction of female homosocial relations. As the prostitute heroine and narrator tells of her successful and colorful career and her many relationships along the way, we discov...

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Main Author: Allistaire Tallent
Format: Article
Language:ces
Published: University of Pardubice 2009-01-01
Series:Theatrum Historiae
Online Access:https://theatrum.upce.cz/index.php/theatrum/article/view/189
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title Female friendship and fraternité in the prostitute memoir novels of eighteenth-century France
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