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Scenes of Seduction: Prostitution, Hysteria, and Reading Difference in Nineteenth-Century France
Jann Matlock
Scenes of Seduction: Prostitution, Hysteria, and Reading Difference in Nineteenth-Century France
Jann Matlock
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.
408 pages, 18 illustration
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | February 3, 1994 |
ISBN13 | 9780231072076 |
Publishers | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 422 |
Dimensions | 228 × 154 × 25 mm · 616 g |
Language | English |
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