Bad Girls of Literature: 20+ Novels
Classic Tales of Female Transgression, Desire, Scandal, and Defiance Across the AgesBy Lew Tolstoi, Honoré de Balzac, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Cleland, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Euripides, Emily Brontë, William Kirby, Anthony Trollope, D. H. Lawrence, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Eliza Haywood, Alexandre Dumas, Mary Gladys Meredith Webb, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Gustave Flaubert, George Sand, Alexandre Dumas fils, Maria Edgeworth, George Gissing, Mrs. Olifant
Length340h 59m
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Bad Girls of Literature: 20+ Novels assembles a provocative transhistorical archive of female transgression, desire, ambition, and social disobedience. Ranging from classical tragedy and Restoration-era amatory fiction to Gothic sensation, realism, romance, and modern psychological narrative, the volume traces the changing meanings of the "bad" woman across European literary culture. Seductresses, adulteresses, rebels, social climbers, and women punished for resisting domestic norms appear in works of markedly different scale and style, from dramatic myth to the densely observed novel. Its most compelling juxtaposition lies in the dialogue between scandalous plots and the moral, legal, and economic systems that make scandal intelligible. The contributors represent an exceptionally broad literary genealogy: French realism and Romanticism, British Victorian social fiction, Irish Gothic, eighteenth-century sentimental and libertine writing, Russian moral inquiry, and the enduring classical inheritance. Although many of these writers were central to established canons, the collection also foregrounds women authors whose fiction exposed the constraints of marriage, inheritance, sexuality, and reputation. Together, these varied voices reveal that female "vice" has often served as a vehicle for examining class power, gendered double standards, and the limits of respectable society. Ideal for students, scholars, and general readers, this anthology offers an unusually rich comparative encounter with literary transgression. Readers will find both pleasure and instruction in its shifting forms, historical settings, and competing moral perspectives, as each work enlarges the questions posed by the others.
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Rating★★★★ 4.3 (12)
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GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length340 hrs 59 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Night in a Moorish Harem
26LETTER XVII.
2Memoirs of Fanny Hill
27LETTER XVIII.
3LETTER THE FIRST (pt. 1)
28LETTER XIX.
4LETTER THE FIRST (pt. 2)
29LETTER XX.
5LETTER THE SECOND (pt. 1)
30LETTER XXI.
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6LETTER THE SECOND (pt. 2)
31LETTER XXII.
7Dangerous Liaisons
32LETTER XXIII.
8VOL. I.
33LETTER XXIV.
9PREFACE.
34LETTER XXV.
10LETTER I.
35LETTER XXVI.
11LETTER II.
36LETTER XXVII.
12LETTER III.
37LETTER XXVIII.
13LETTER IV.
38LETTER XXIX.
14LETTER V.
39LETTER XXX.
15LETTER VI.
40LETTER XXXI.
16LETTER VII.
41LETTER XXXII.
17LETTER VIII.
42LETTER XXXIII.
18LETTER IX.
43LETTER XXXIV.
19LETTER X.
44LETTER XXXV.
20LETTER XI.
45LETTER XXXVI.
21LETTER XII.
46LETTER XXXVII.
22LETTER XIII.
47LETTER XXXVIII.
23LETTER XIV.
48LETTER XXXIX.
24LETTER XV.
49LETTER XL.
25LETTER XVI.
50LETTER XLI.
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