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Author:

Counter, Andrew J., author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010158544

Title:

The amorous restoration : love, sex, and politics in early nineteenth-century France / Andrew J. Counter.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

viii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

France--History--Restoration, 1814-1830.
France--Social life and customs--19th century.
France--Civilization--1789-1830.
French literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Politics and literature--France--History--19th century.
Love in literature--History--19th century.
Sex in literature--History--19th century.
Erotic literature, French--History and criticism.
Civilization.
France.
1789-1830
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : love, sex, politics -- Impediments : critiques of marriage in Restoration France -- Good breeding : romanticism, aristocracy, and reproduction -- Gallantries : the literature of sexual worldliness under the Restoration -- Olivier in the closet : gossip, scandal, and the novel in the 1820s -- The sexual monster : celibacy and the anticlerical imagination -- 1830 : the end of an eros? Nodier and Fourier on the history of sexuality -- Coda : secret love affairs of the Bourbons.

ISBN:

9780198785996
0198785992

OCLC:

(OCoLC)944156684

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)