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Article: Fictions du scandale: Corps feminin et realisme romanesque au dix-neuvieme siecle.(Review) (book review)
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- Nineteenth-Century French Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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Rogers, Nathalie Buchet. Fictions du scandale: Corps feminin et realisme romanesque au dix-neuvieme siecle. West Lafayette: Purdue UP (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures v. 16). 1998. Pp. 324. ISBN 1-55753-123-4
In Fictions du scandale, Nathalie Buchet Rogers traces the evolution of the scandal motif in the "feminocentric" Realist novel from Balzac to Rachilde. Drawing on the theories of Freud, Schor, Derrida, and Girard, Rogers addresses not only the place of the scandalous woman (her desire and her body) in nineteenth-century fiction, but also the textual production of scandal in this period. The book indeed moves from fictional scandals to the scandal of ...