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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mary McAlpinPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781138110274ISBN 10: 1138110272 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 22 May 2017 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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;Reviews'McAlpin's close accounting of the symptoms of vitalism on the body of the novel clarifies the degree to which the adolescent girl played a starring role in an Enlightenment discourse of cultural degradation that fueled both the development of imaginative literature and the medical attempt to explain the relation between the social and the individual as a function of the imagination's work on the body.' H-France 'McAlpin's close accounting of the symptoms of vitalism on the body of the novel clarifies the degree to which the adolescent girl played a starring role in an Enlightenment discourse of cultural degradation that fueled both the development of imaginative literature and the medical attempt to explain the relation between the social and the individual as a function of the imagination’s work on the body.' H-France Author InformationMary McAlpin is Associate Professor of French at the University of Tennessee, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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