Title: The Amorous Restoration
Description: This volume explores the intertwining of love and politics in post-revolutionary literature of nineteenth-century France, under the Bourbon Restoration. Andrew J. Counter draws on a variety of genres, from poetry to gossip, to recreate a pivotal moment in the transition from an amorous old regime to erotic - and political - modernity.
Subjects: French literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Sex in literature, Love in literature, Politics and literature, Erotic literature, history and criticism, French literature, History and criticism, History, French Erotic literature, Civilization