Sex work, text work : mapping prostitution in the nineteenth-century French novel / Jessica Tanner.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Tanner, Jessica, author.

Contributor:

• ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• French fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
• Prostitutes in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 278 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2023.

Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Unhomely Houses: Novel Nostalgia and the Tolerated Brothel
• Chapter 2: "A Proletariat of Bachelors and Whores": Plotting Paris in the Brasserie aÌ⁰ femmes
• Chapter 3: Appropriating Paris: Zola's Novel Houses of Ill Repute
• Chapter 4: Occupying Paris: Street Prostitution and Novel Disobedience
• Conclusion: Novel Politics: Biopolitics, Community, and Prostitution at Large
• Notes
• Bibliography.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-272) and index.
• Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 9780810145856 (electronic bk.)
• 0810145855 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

40032128654

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.