The Amorous Restoration 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.
The Amorous Restoration 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.
Andrew J. Counter is Associate Professor of French at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College. He has previously held positions at King's College London and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and studied French at Christ's College, Cambridge. He works on all aspects of nineteenth-century French cultural life. His first book, Inheritance in Nineteenth-Century French Culture: Wealth, Knowledge, and the Family appeared with Legenda in 2010.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction: Love, Sex, Politics * 1: Impediments: Critiques of Marriage in Restoration France * 2: Good Breeding: Romanticism, Aristocracy, and Reproduction * 3: Gallantries: Literature of Sexual Worldliness under the Restoration * 4: Olivier in the Closet: Gossip, Scandal, and the Novel in the 1820s * 5: The Sexual Monster: Celibacy and the Anticlerical Imagination * 6: 1830: The End of an Eros?: Nodier and Fourier on the History of Sexuality * Coda: Secret Love Affairs of the Bourbons * Bibliography * Index
* Introduction: Love, Sex, Politics * 1: Impediments: Critiques of Marriage in Restoration France * 2: Good Breeding: Romanticism, Aristocracy, and Reproduction * 3: Gallantries: Literature of Sexual Worldliness under the Restoration * 4: Olivier in the Closet: Gossip, Scandal, and the Novel in the 1820s * 5: The Sexual Monster: Celibacy and the Anticlerical Imagination * 6: 1830: The End of an Eros?: Nodier and Fourier on the History of Sexuality * Coda: Secret Love Affairs of the Bourbons * Bibliography * Index
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