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Summary:

"Out of the libertine literary tradition of eighteenth-century France emerged over a dozen memoir novels of female libertines who eagerly take up sex work as a means of escape from the patriarchal control of fathers and husbands to pursue pleasure, wealth, and personal independence outside the private, domestic sphere. In these anonymously published novels, the heroines proudly declare themselves prostitutes, or putains, and use the desire they arouse, the professional skills they develop, and the network of female friends they create to exploit, humiliate, and financially ruin wealthy and powerful men. In pursuing their desires, the putains challenge contemporary notions of womanhood and expose the injustices of ancien-régime France. Until the French Revolution spelled the end of the genre, these novels proposed not only an appealing libertine utopia in which libertine women enjoy the same benefits as their male counterparts, but also entirely new ways of looking at systems of power, gender, and sexuality"-- [Provided by publisher]

Author/Creator:

Tallent, Alistaire , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Fictions of pleasure: the putain memoirs of prerevolutionary France [by Tallent, A.]

Related Series:

Early modern feminisms

Subjects:

Autobiographical fiction, French — History and criticism

French fiction — 18th century — History and criticism

Prostitutes in literature

Libertines in literature

Women in literature

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

PQ637.A96 T35 2024eb

ISBNs:

9781644533260 (electronic bk.)
164453326X (electronic bk.)
9781644533239 [Invalid]
1644533235 [Invalid]
9781644533246 [Invalid]
1644533243 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1422615103

Other Control Numbers:

EBC30721944 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp20424466