Figures of ill repute : representing prostitution in nineteenth-century France /

Figures of ill repute : representing prostitution in nineteenth-century France / Charles Bernheimer.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ACLS)
Main Author: Bernheimer, Charles, 1942- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1989.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
Subjects:
French fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Prostitutes in literature.
French fiction > Male authors > History and criticism.
Art and literature > France > History > 19th century.
Prostitution > France > History > 19th century.
Art, French > 19th century.
Sex crimes in literature.
Criminals in literature.
Women in literature.
Prostitutes in art.
Art, French.
Crime in literature.
Art and literature.
French fiction.
French fiction > Male authors.
Prostitution.
France.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Parent-Duchâtelet : engineer of abjection
  • Cashing in on hearts of gold : Balzac and Sue
  • Barbey's dandy narratives
  • Manet's Olympia : the figuration of scandal
  • The idea of prostitution in Flaubert
  • Degas's brothels : voyeurism and ideology
  • Decomposing Venus : the corpse of naturalism
  • Huysmans : syphilis, hysteria, and sublimation.

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