Mary Mcalpin

Female Sexuality and Cultural Degradation in Enlightenment France (eBook, ePUB)

Medicine and Literature

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In her study of the literature and medical treatises of Enlightenment France, McAlpin explores the belief that premature puberty in young urban girls signalled an increasing moral and physical degeneration. Offering physiologically based readings of heroines in novels by, among others, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot and Choderlos de Laclos, McAlpin shows that the Western view of women's sexuality as a mysterious, nebulous force has its secular origins in the mid-eighteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317135906
• Artikelnr.: 49353360

Autorenporträt

Mary McAlpin is Associate Professor of French at the University of Tennessee, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Daughters of Eve
Chapter 1 Puberty and the Splitting of the Single Sex
Chapter 2 Women as Bellwethers of Cultural Degradation
Chapter 3 Julie d'Etange, or Sexuality and the Virtuous Heroine
Chapter 4 The Marquise de Merteuil, or Sexuality in the State of Nature
Chapter 5 Marie-Jeanne Roland, or Sexuality and the Republic of Virtue
conclusion Conclusion: Sade's Way