French Dressing: Women, Men, and Ancien Régime FictionFrench 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. |
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ancien régime Barthes century Comminge Crébillon cultural death desire despite Diderot discourse Duclos Duclos's edition eighteenth eighteenth-century novel emphasis added enigma epistolary novel erotic essay Etiemble Fanny Fanny Hill Fauchery female feminine feminism feminist fiction final France French gender genre Givry Graffigny Grecque moderne Grieux hermeneutic heroine innocence Juliette Catesby Juliette's Justine Justine's Laclos Laclos's Les Bijoux indiscrets Les Liaisons dangereuses letter Liaisons dangereuses libertine libertine novel literary lover Madame male Manon Lescaut Marquis Marquis de Sade masculine memoir Merteuil Mme de Maugiron Mme de Mortsauf Mme de Villedieu narrative narrator Noirceuil novelist Ossery Paris Peter Brooks pleasure plot Prévost reader reading references are included relations Riccoboni Roland Barthes roman Rousseau Sade Sadian seduction sexual social story Tencin textual Théophé tion trans truth University Press Valmont virtue woman women writers worldly writing York