Figures of Ill Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France

by Charles Bernheimer

Book Overview

Ubiquitous in the streets and brothels of nineteenth-century Paris, the prostitute was even more so in the novels and paintings of the time. Charles Bernheimer discusses how these representations of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822319470
• ISBN13: 9780822319474
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"