Sex Work, Text Work: Mapping Prostitution in the Nineteenth-Century French Novel

by Jessica Tanner

Book Overview

Though male French authors plotted prostitution to make their names--mimicking the surveillance of municipal authorities--the sex workers in their books manage to evade efforts to contain them

While prostitutes in nineteenth-century Paris were subject to municipal laws that policed their bodies and movements, writers of the era enlisted them to stake their own claims on both the city and the novel as literary territory. Sex Work,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810145839
• ISBN13: 9780810145832
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.