The Telling of the Act

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"This study describes the emergence of a new thematic regime that comes together during the second half of the eighteenth century, and takes on a recognizably modern shape in the course of the nineteenth. The change decribed here is quite profound, although it does not take the form of a seismic event. It is, rather, the net effect of a long process of thematic drift and realignment."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: French Erotic stories,  History and criticism,  Sex in literature,  French fiction,  French fiction, history and criticism,  Erotic stories, history and criticism,  Roman français,  Histoire et critique,  Sexualité dans la littérature,  Histoires érotiques françaises,  Letterkunde,  Frans,  Seksualiteit