Charles Bernheimer

Figures of Ill Repute

Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France

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Produktbeschreibung

"[A]n important work. . . . Shifting nimbly from close textual analysis to biographical or scientific information, from psychoanalytic speculation to anecdotes of social history, this original, exciting study offers . . . a truly liberal view of the seriousness and importance of all our representational activities."--Leo Bersani

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780822319474
• ISBN-10: 0822319470
• Artikelnr.: 22319252

Autorenporträt

Charles Bernheimer

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Duke Edition vii
Acknowledgments xi
List of Illustrations xiii
Abbreviations xvii
Introduction 1
1. Parent-Duchâtelet: Engineer of Abjection 8
2. Cashing in on Hearts of Gold: Balzac and Sue 34
3. Barbey's Dandy Narratives 69
4. Manet's Olympia: The Figuration of Scandal 89
5. The Idea of Prostitution in Flaubert 129
6. Degas's Brothels: Voyeurism and Ideology 157
7. Decomposing Venus: The Corpse of Naturalism 200
8. Huysmans: Syphilis, Hysteria, and Sublimation 234
Conclusion 266
Notes 277
Credits 321
Index 323