Charles Bernheimer

Figures of Ill Repute

Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France

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Produktbeschreibung

"[A]n important work. . . . Shifting nimbly from close textual analysis to biographical or scientific information, from psychoanalytic speculation to anecdotes of social history, this original, exciting study offers . . . a truly liberal view of the seriousness and importance of all our representational activities."--Leo Bersani

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780822319474
• ISBN-10: 0822319470
• Artikelnr.: 22319252

Autorenporträt

Charles Bernheimer is Professor of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Flaubert and Kafka and coeditor of In Dora’s Case.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Duke Edition vii
Acknowledgments xi
List of Illustrations xiii
Abbreviations xvii
Introduction 1
1. Parent-Duchâtelet: Engineer of Abjection 8
2. Cashing in on Hearts of Gold: Balzac and Sue 34
3. Barbey's Dandy Narratives 69
4. Manet's Olympia: The Figuration of Scandal 89
5. The Idea of Prostitution in Flaubert 129
6. Degas's Brothels: Voyeurism and Ideology 157
7. Decomposing Venus: The Corpse of Naturalism 200
8. Huysmans: Syphilis, Hysteria, and Sublimation 234
Conclusion 266
Notes 277
Credits 321
Index 323