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Sexuality and Cultural Degeneration in Enlightenment France: Medicine and Literature

Sexuality and Cultural Degeneration in Enlightenment France: Medicine and Literature

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1409422410
ISBN13: 9781409422419
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 28 2012
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In her study of the literature and medical treatises of Enlightenment France, McAlpin explores the belief that premature puberty in young urban girls signalled an increasing moral and physical degeneration. Offering physiologically based readings of heroines in novels by, among others, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot and Choderlos de Laclos, McAlpin shows that the Western view of women's sexuality as a mysterious, nebulous force has its secular origins in the mid-eighteenth century.

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