French Dressing: Women, Men, and Fiction in the Ancien Regime

By Nancy K. Miller

French Dressing looks at the ancien r?gime's scenarios of libertine seduction--unsafe sex and its consequences for women's lives. It places the gender performances of male and female-authored novels in dialogue in order to recover the complexity of a century obsessed, as we are today, with writing and living plots of desire. FrenchDressing exposes the erotic anxieties behind a national culture of sexual self-display--French undressing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041590322X
• ISBN13: 9780415903226
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.