Bad books
Subtitle: Rétif de la Bretonne, sexuality, and pornography
By: Amy S. Wyngaard
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Brand: University of Delaware
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9781611494204; 9781611494211
Subjects: Pornography in literature; Sex in literature; Criticism and interpretation; Literature and society; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Defining obscenity: the limits of censorship in Le Paysan perverti and La Paysanne pervertie; title: Inventing pornography: sex and sentimentality in Le Pornographe and L'anti-justine; title: Conceptualizing fetishism: Rétif and the advent of modern sexual science; title: Coda; title: Imagining eugenics: strategic sexuality in La Découverte australe.