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02838aam a2200469 i 4500 001 3863CAC0E67F11EE94C7D61345ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240320010038 008 230508s2024 deu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023018910 020 $a 1644533243 020 $a 9781644533246 020 $a 1644533235 020 $a 9781644533239 035 $a (OCoLC)1378601680 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PQ637.A96 $b T35 2024 082 00 $a 843/.082 $2 23/eng/20230508 100 1 $a Tallent, Alistaire, $e author. 245 10 $a Fictions of pleasure : $b the putain memoirs of prerevolutionary France / $c Alistaire Tallent. 264 1 $a Newark : $b University of Delaware Press, $c [2024] 300 $a ix, 215 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Early modern feminisms 520 $a "Out of the libertine literary tradition of eighteenth-century France emerged over a dozen memoir novels of female libertines who eagerly take up sex work as a means of escape from the patriarchal control of fathers and husbands to pursue pleasure, wealth, and personal independence outside the private, domestic sphere. In these anonymously published novels, the heroines proudly declare themselves prostitutes, or putains, and use the desire they arouse, the professional skills they develop, and the network of female friends they create to exploit, humiliate, and financially ruin wealthy and powerful men. In pursuing their desires, the putains challenge contemporary notions of womanhood and expose the injustices of ancien-reÌgime France. Until the French Revolution spelled the end of the genre, these novels proposed not only an appealing libertine utopia in which libertine women enjoy the same benefits as their male counterparts, but also entirely new ways of looking at systems of power, gender, and sexuality"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 648 7 $a 1700-1799 $2 fast 650 0 $a Autobiographical fiction, French $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a French fiction $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Prostitutes in literature. 650 0 $a Libertines in literature. 650 0 $a Women in literature. 650 7 $a Autobiographical fiction, French $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00822564 650 7 $a French fiction $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00934302 650 7 $a Libertines in literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01896071 650 7 $a Prostitutes in literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01079558 650 7 $a Women in literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177912 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a Early modern feminisms 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240320011107.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3863CAC0E67F11EE94C7D61345ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search