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| Introduction: On Writing Biography: In which the author pays a visit to Perigueux and makes a detour to Galveston | 1 | |
| 1860, February 11, Women as Outsiders: In which Marguerite Eymery (Rachilde) is born, a werewolf appears, and traps are both set and sprung | 12 | |
| 1870, October 29, The Ambivalence of the Paternal: In which Captain Eymery is taken prisoner | 29 | |
| 1875, January or Early February, The Cultural Injunction to Silence: In which Rachilde is engaged, appears to attempt suicide, and meets a ghost who delivers an important message | 48 | |
| 1876, March 1, Woman as Medium: In which seances are held, Madame Eymery meets "Rachilde," and doubles mysteriously appear | 63 | |
| 1877, June 23, Authority, Authorship, and Authorization: In which Rachilde publishes her first story and Victor Hugo authorizes her | 78 | |
| 1884, May-July, The Politics of Publishing: In which Monsieur Venus is published and the French police take an interest in Rachilde | 88 | |
| 1884, December 12, Writing as Cross-Dressing: In which Rachilde applies for permission to cross-dress and become a writer | 101 | |
| 1885, A Thursday in March, Marriage and the Woman Writer: In which Rachilde meets Alfred Vallette and marries him, despite some second thoughts | 114 | |
| 1887, February 26 (A Saturday), The Photograph Never Lies: In which a front page brings attention to Rachilde's hair | 138 | |
| 1889, October 25, The Cultural Legitimacy of the Woman Writer: In which Rachilde's daughter is born and questions are raised about legitimacy | 151 | |
| 1890, November 10, Imagining the Self: In which Rachilde's first play is performed and some mirrors are looked into | 160 | |
| 1894, A Tuesday, Male Anxiety at the Fin de Siecle: In which Rachilde, cupbearer to the symbolist gods, meets Alfred Jarry | 172 | |
| 1900, December 10, Women and Education: In which Rachilde's mother is admitted to the asylum of Charenton and some deficiencies in Rachilde's education become apparent | 185 | |
| 1925, July 2, Women and Surrealism: In which Rachilde gets into a bun fight | 203 | |
| 1928, June, Gender Anxiety in French Modernism: In which Le Prisonnier is published and Rachilde acts rather queerly | 217 | |
| 1953, April 4, On Minding: In which Rachilde is reunited with Lison | 228 | |
| Notes | 235 | |
| Bibliography | 261 | |
| Index | 287 |
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Joseph Matthews
reviewed Rachilde and French Women's Authorship: From Decadence to Modernism on June 14, 2017
Rachilde and French Women's Authorship: From Decadence to Modernism
The Publishers' Weekly described it as an 'impenetrable rhapsody to the apotheosis of French intellectualism... overflowing with fawning endearments.'
Well I couldnt get through it in the month Wellington public library let me keep it and I had to wait two more months to get it out again to finish it, so readers in Wellington at least evidently want a book about Sartre that isnt more interested in Simone de Beauvoir.
"The Beaver" is in fact a rare visitor to these pages, perhaps because Levy's book wants to locate Sartre in the sequence of thinkers whose investigations, it is contended, he brought to a satisfactory conclusion before heading off into the political error -Stalinism- that destroyed his credibility.
An error, we understand, which brought such disgrace on the enterprise of asking the really big questions that philosophy since S has cautiously reduced itself to a sort of cultural achaeology. These days we get technicians, not these reckless exponents of philosophy as the urge to write. This might explain why the best thing about Levy's book, his own extravagant language, has been the thing its critics have most resented.
OK, we have to tread carefully now that linguistics is the new intellectual black. We know that thought is only as accurate as the words available to the thinker, and words are slippery beasts.
But I for one welcome any efforts to rescue 'existentialism' from journalists who use it in such constructions as 'Israel is an existential threat to Palestine.'
Philosophy as the urge to write. Plato, Descartes, Berkley, Sartre, Camus. All wrong, probably, but what good reads they gave us. Add Levy to the list.
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