The reinvention of obscenity
Subtitle: sex, lies, and tabloids in early modern France
By: Joan DeJean.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism.; Erotic literature, French -- History and criticism.; Sex in literature.; Censorship -- France.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-192) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: "The Words That Shock So Much at First"; title: 1 Male Practices: Theophile de Viau's "Sodomite Sonnet" 29; title: 2 The Heterosexual Turn: L'Ecole desfilles or, When (the) Sex Began to Talk 56; title: 3 Two-Letter Words: Moliere's L'Ecole desfemmes and Obscenity Made Modern 84; title: Conclusion: Beyond Obscenity? I22; title: Notes I3I; title: Works Cited I83; title: Index z93.