Scenes of seduction: prostitution, hysteria, and reading difference in nineteenth-century france
Auteur :
Matlock, Jann
Éditeur :
Columbia University Press
ISBN :
9780231072076
Date de publication :
3 févr. 1994
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.