Scenes of Seduction: Prostitution, Hysteria, and Reading Difference in Nineteenth-Century France

Scenes of Seduction: Prostitution, Hysteria, and Reading Difference in Nineteenth-Century France

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Author/Contributor(s): Matlock, Jann
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date: 02/03/1994
Binding: Paperback
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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.