“Jeune fille qui ne pleure pas son oiseau mort”: female puberty in Stendhal's Lamiel

This article is a close reading of the fausse phthisie ruse in Stendhal's Lamiel. It examines the scene in the 1840 version of the manuscript in which Lamiel and Doctor Sansfin fake the symptoms of tuberculosis using the blood of a dead bird. In the first instance, this article analyses the nov...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jones, S
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: University of Nebraska Press 2021