Essays in French Literature and Culture

A peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by the French Programme at the University of Western Australia ISSN No. 1835-7040

Helen Craske, Arbitrating the Arbitrary? Taste in Rachilde’s Fin-de-Siècle Book Reviews/Arbitrer l’arbitraire? Le goût selon Rachilde dans ses comptes rendus fin de siècle, Essays in French Literature and Culture 60, 2023, pp. 77-95.

Essays in French Literature and Culture

About the author:

Helen Craske is a Junior Research Fellow in Modern Languages at Merton College, Oxford. Her research focuses on French literary, media, and visual culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Since completing a doctorate in 2021, she has started a second major research project: ‘Saucy French Magazines, c. 1880–1914’. Her first book, Complicity in Fin-de-siècle Literature (forthcoming with OUP), analyses how notions of shared crime and guilt structured the production and perception of literature in fin-de-siècle France. She has published articles on Decadent writers and periodical culture in French Studies, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, and Dix-Neuf.

Email: helen.craske@merton.ox.ac.uk

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