Background et théorie
Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism, Chapter 1: Overlapping  Territories, Intertwined Histories.

Elaine Showalter, Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de  siècle.  Chapter 1: Borderlines; Chapter 7: The Woman's Case;
Chapter 8: The Veiled Woman.

Charles Bernheimer, Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution  in Nineteenth-Century France.  Introduction.

Naomi Schor, Breaking The Chain: Women, Theory, and French Realist  Fiction.  Chapter 2: Smiles of the Sphinx: Zola and the Riddle of  Femininity.

Prose
Gustave Flaubert, "Un coeur simple" de Trois Contes.

Guy de Maupassant, "Boule de suif."

Poésie
Leconte de Lisle, "Midi."

Paul Verlaine, "Art poétique," "Les faux beaux jours."

Arthur Rimbaud, "Le bateau ivre," "Ophélie."

Stéphane Mallarmé, "L'azur," "L'après-midi d'un faune,"
"Le corbeau."

Théâtre
Maurice Maeterlinck, Pelléas et Mélisande