The wages of shame -- Worlds apart: mapping prostitution and the demi-monde -- Fictions of prostitution -- La Sapho, or staging vengeance -- Plotting exoneration -- Chabrillan's final novels, or the uses of fiction
Summary
Writing with a Vengeance examines the life and works of a nineteenth-century French courtesan, Celeste Venard, later the Countess de Chabrillan
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-175) and index
