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Chronicle: Renée Vivien, From One Century to Another

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Nicole G. Albert
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In this paper, Nicole G. Albert presents a critical portrait of Anglo-French writer Renée Vivien (1877-1909), a major figure of the so-called feminine literature of the turn of the century. By analyzing several of her poems, Albert argues that Renée Vivien’s work is marked by a sometimes fatal conception of love, a view of sexual pleasure that is always Sapphic in nature, and a very unconventional idea of the feminine condition. Her homosexuality, her condemnation of marriage, her scorn for family and her absolute refusal of motherhood distinguish her from her contemporaries, and make of her an author worth being rediscovered and studied.

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Diogenes , Volume 57 , Issue 4: Philosophical Reflections Across Cultures , November 2010 , pp. 113 - 117
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Copyright © ICPHS 2012

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