- Description
- ix, 215 pages; 24 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Early modern feminisms
- Uniform Title
- Early modern feminisms.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781644533239
- 1644533235
- 9781644533246
- 1644533243
- 9781644533253 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781644533260 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023018910
- OCLC
- YBP 2023018910
- Author
Tallent, Alistaire, author.
- Title
Fictions of pleasure : the putain memoirs of prerevolutionary France / Alistaire Tallent.
- Publisher
Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2024]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Series
Early modern feminisms
Early modern feminisms.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
1700-1799