Figures of Ill Repute by Charles Bernheimer
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 the sexually available woman express male ambivalence about desire, money, class, and the body. Interweaving close textual analysis with historical anecdote and theoretical speculation, Bernheimer demonstrates how the formal properties of art can serve strategically to control anxious fantasies about female sexual power. Drawing on methods derived from cultural studies, psychoanalysis, social history, feminist theory, and narrative analysis, this interdisciplinary classic (available now for the first time in paperback) was awarded Honorable Mention in 1990 for the James Russell Lowell prize awarded by the Modern Language Association for the best book of criticism.
Charles Bernheimer is Professor of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Figures of III Repute: Representing Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France and Flaubert and Kafka: Studies on Psychopoetic Structure.Claire Kahane is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo and co-editor of a volume of feminist psychoanalytic essays, The M[O]ther Tongue.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780674301153 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674301153 |
| Title | Figures of Ill Repute |
| Author | Charles Bernheimer |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 1989-10-25 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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