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Scenes of Seduction - Prostitution, Hysteria, and Reading Difference in Nineteenth-Century France (Paperback, New)
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Scenes of Seduction - Prostitution, Hysteria, and Reading Difference in Nineteenth-Century France (Paperback, New)
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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. Studying
representations of female sexuality and the obsession with it in
19th-century France, Matlock scrutinizes contemporary debates on:
tolerated prostitution; sexual continence; the relationship of
female sexuality to madness; the dangers of literature. The
contemporary fascination with prostitution provides a model for
understanding the relationship between novel-reading and female
sexuality in a world where the novel was considered dangerous,
because it would awaken affections and introduce women to the world
of sexual experience. Matlock uses studies of prostitution, trial
reports, advice manuals and novels by Balzac, Dumas, Soulie and Sue
to analyze the social, political, medical and literary issues
supposedly evoked by female sexuality.
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