Title: Taboo
Description: This wide-ranging text uses the notion of the taboo as a powerful means of interpreting representations of the body. The hidden bodies of realist texts reveal their secrets in unexpected ways.
Subjects: Human body in literature, French literature, history and criticism, Taboo, Romance literature, French fiction, History and criticism, Taboo in literature, Diseases in literature, Abnormalities, Human, in literature, Gender identity in literature, Medicine in literature, Roman français, Histoire et critique, Corps humain dans la littérature, Tabou dans la littérature, Maladies dans la littérature, Identité sexuelle dans la littérature, Médecine dans la littérature, Desire in literature, People with disabilities in literature, History, Gender Identity, Human Body, Sex