French Dressing looks at the ancien rAcgime'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. French Dressing exposes the erotic anxieties behind a national culture of sexual self-display--French undressing.1978a1989. By the fall of 1978, when, after having taught my first courseaa graduate seminar aon (French)women authors, I wrote aEmphasis Addeda (the second of my essays on womena#39;s writing), I had both regressed to and returned fromanbsp;...
Title | : | French Dressing |
Author | : | Nancy K. Miller |
Publisher | : | Routledge - 2013-10-31 |
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