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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: Egotistical spectator: Rachilde (1860-1953) and the fin-de-siecle novel Abstract: For over sixty years the writer Rachilde (1860-1953) produced novels, plays and short stories which earned her a loyal readership in fin-de-siecle France. Considered "Mademoiselle Baudelaire" by Symbolist critics but a mere Decadent pornographer by detractors, Rachilde defies simple placement within either genre. An avid practitioner of her generation's theatrical, artistic conceits, Rachilde was an occasional Bohemian, a sometime cross-dresser and journalist, and always a proponent of the "cult of ego" that made Parisian aesthetes infamous. Rachilde's prose and development of a distinctive literary persona made her a precursor of "modernism." Her radical independence hearkens back to the Enlightenment heroic subject, yet reaches forward to the era of women's emancipation despite the fact that she pointedly rejected feminism. Rachilde presided over one of the last French literary salons at the Mercure de France for half a century. |
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