French Dressing

Women, Men, and Fiction in the Ancien Regime

von Nancy K. Miller

256 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

French Dressing looks at the ancien régime's scenarios of libertine seduction--unsafe sex and its consequences for women's lives. It places the gender performances of male and female-authored novels in dialogue in order to recover the complexity of a century obsessed, as we are today, with writing and living plots of desire. FrenchDressing exposes the erotic anxieties behind a national culture of sexual self-display--French undressing.