The Reinvention of Obscenity: Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern France

by Joan DeJean

Book Overview

The concept of obscenity is an ancient one. But as Joan DeJean suggests, its modern form, the same version that today's politicians decry and savvy artists exploit, was invented in seventeenth-century France.

The Reinvention of Obscenity casts a fresh light on the mythical link between sexual impropriety and things French. Exploring the complicity between censorship, print culture, and obscenity, DeJean argues that mass market printing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226141411
• ISBN13: 9780226141411
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.0"