La Comtesse de Ségur: A Marquise de Sade?

By Lisette Luton and Mary K. Lisette Luton

Was La Comtesse de S gur 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 S gur and reinterprets the violent scenes in her novels against the backdrop of these accusations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820442542
• ISBN13: 9780820442549
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 118 Pages