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

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

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

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

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

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

by Jann Matlock

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780231072069
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 02/03/1994
Pages: 422
Product dimensions: 1.13(w) x 5.50(h) x 8.50(d)
Age Range: 18 Years
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