Fictions of pleasure: the putain memoirs of prerevolutionary france
Auteur :
Tallent, Alistaire
Éditeur :
University of Delaware Press
ISBN :
9781644533246
Date de publication :
15 déc. 2023
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 1,8 cm
Poids :
454 g
Format :
Laminated cover
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Out of the libertine literary tradition of eighteenth-century France emerged over a dozen memoir novels of female libertines who eagerly take up sex work as a means of escape from the patriarchal control of fathers and husbands to pursue pleasure, wealth, and personal independence outside the private, domestic sphere.