The Telling of the Act
Subtitle: Sexuality As Narrative in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century France
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: December 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9780874137484
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; Literature: Classics; European - French; 18th century; 19th century; French fiction; History and criticism; Sex in literature
Description: "This study describes the emergence of a new thematic regime that comes together during the second half of the eighteenth century, and takes on a recognizably modern shape in the course of the nineteenth. The change decribed here is quite profound, although it does not take the form of a seismic event. It is, rather, the net effect of a long process of thematic drift and realignment."--BOOK JACKET.