The Telling of the Act: Sexuality as Narrative in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France by Peter Cryle

The Telling of the Act: Sexuality as Narrative in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France

Peter Cryle

440 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

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This book tells how the diverting array of pleasures in eighteenth-century libertine fiction gave way, through a process of thematic drift and realignment, to a powerfully linear story that actually defined sex and the gender roles pertaining to i...

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