French Dressing - Women, Men, and Fiction in the Ancien Regime (Paperback, New)

Novelists in pre-Revolutionary France were fascinated by what has come to be called compulsory heterosexuality', ritualized public performances of male/female relations as the ultimate human bond. Plots of seduction and betrayal glamourized by the "Liasons Dangereuses" demonstrate how complicated and treacherous these performances were. "French Dressing" scrutinizes the ancien regime's practices of unsafe sex, the scenarios of libertinage in which both sexes were equally stylish antagonists. It also shows that women paid unequally, sometimes fatally, for the power games of libertine experiments. In the works of male writers - Laclos and Sade, Duclos and Prost - the shape of narrative requires the staging of sexual conquest, rhetorical and literal undressing. The works of the women novelists who were their contemporaries - Tencin, Graffigny, Riccoboni, Charriere - also configure the social relations between the sexes but shift the emphasis to the aftermath of sexual plot: the emotional and physical consequences of a power-driven economy.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 1994
First published:	1995
Authors:	Nancy K. Miller
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	254
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-90322-6
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Sex & sexuality Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	0-415-90322-X
Barcode:	9780415903226

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