Scenes of Seduction: Prostitution, Hysteria, and Reading Difference in Nineteenth-Century France

Type

Book

Authors

Jann Matlock

ISBN 10

0231072074

ISBN 13

9780231072076

Tags

Criticism & Theory, Movements & Periods, Reference, French

Description

This study demonstrates that three subjects traditionally discussed separately - prostitution, hysteria and the popular novel - share a discourse of marginality and of female marginality in particular, central to the 19th-century experience in France. - from Amzon

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