Love and Sexuality

The Editors: Sarah F. Donachie has a First Class Honours degree in French and Italian, and an M.A. with Distinction in «Modern European Cultures and Societies» from the University of Hull. In December 2004 she completed a Ph.D. entitled «Love, Marriage and Gender in Stendhal’s Fiction» at the University of Leeds and now works at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Kim Harrison has a BA Honours degree in French Studies and was awarded a distinction for her M.A. by Research degree, on the singer-songwriter Renaud in 2000. She is completing her Ph.D. thesis on «Reflexivity in French Chanson» (University of Leeds) and she lives and teaches in Vancouver, Canada.

Contents: Sarah F. Donachie: Unwriting the 'Amazone': Gender Trouble in Stendhal's Lamiel - Julie Summers: The Economics of Love: The Deal in the Drama of Bernard-Marie Koltès - Sarah Hartshorn: Le Couple: Male-Female Relations and the Viability of the Heterosexual Couple in the Work of Marie Cardinal - Sophie Timmerman: Obsession et frustration: dépasser l'érotique dans Vaste est la prison et La Femme sans sépulture d'Assia Djebar - Nicole Fayard: Sadeian Sisters: Sexuality as Terrorism in the Work of Virginie Despentes - Elizabeth Newton: Perception and Power: The Phenomenology of Sexuality in Robbe-Grillet's Film and Fiction - Jonathan Hensher: From Innocent to Indecent: Eroticism and Visual Punning in Cochin's Illustrations to the Roland Furieux - Alisair Swiffen: Double Helix: Two Blueprints for an Erotics of Modernism.