Reinvention of Obscenity Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern France

Name: Reinvention of Obscenity Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern France
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ISBN: 9780226141411

ISBN-10: 0226141411

ISBN-13: 9780226141411

Edition: 2002

Authors: Joan DeJean

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The concept of obscenity is an ancient one. But as Joan deJean suggests, its modern form, the same version that today's politicians decry, was invented in seventeenth century France.

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: "The Words That Shock So Much at First"



Male Practices: Theophile de Viau's "Sodomite Sonnet"



The Heterosexual Turn: L'Ecole des filles or, When (the) Sex Began to Talk



Two-Letter Words: Moliere's L'Ecole des femmes and Obscenity Made Modern


Conclusion: Beyond Obscenity?


Notes


Works Cited


Index