Scenes of Seduction: Prostitution, Hysteria, and Reading Difference in Nineteenth-Century France by Jann Matlock
Scenes of Seduction: Prostitution, Hysteria, and Reading Difference in Nineteenth-Century France
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Jann Matlock
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Scenes of Seduction: Prostitution, Hysteria, and Reading Difference in Nineteenth-Century France

Jann Matlock

422 pages • first pub 1993 (editions)

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This study demonstrates that three subjects traditionally discussed separately - prostitution, hysteria and the popular novel - share a discourse of marginality and of female marginality in particular, central to the 19th-century experience in Fra...

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