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The erotic imagination : French histories of perversity / Vernon A. Rosario.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rosario, Vernon A.
- Series:
- Ideologies of desire
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Erotica--France--History--18th century.
- Erotica.
- Erotic literature, French.
- Sex customs--France--History--18th century.
- Sex customs.
- Sexual health--France--History--18th century.
- Sexual health.
- History.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- Filled with extraordinary case studies and written in prose that is as lively and entertaining as it is insightful, this book offers both a history of the erotic imagination and its narrative expressions, as well as a fascinating mirror in which our contemporary ambivalence about sexuality--from the acrimonious rhetoric of family values to censorship of pornography and hostility towards gays--takes on surprising new significance.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-237) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195104838
- OCLC:
- 35758069
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