Telling Glances: Voyeurism in the French Novel

by Dorothy Kelly

Book Overview

In French novels from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, a particular plot structure constantly reappears. A man desires a woman who is enigmatic and unattainable: he desires to see her and to understand her, to know exactly what she is, what she desires--in a sense, he wants to possess her through the knowledge of her (and of woman in general) that he gains through the power of his gaze. Since the information he desires remains hidden,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813518466
• ISBN13: 9780813518466
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 264 Pages