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French Dressing: Women, Men, and Fiction in the Ancien Regime
French Dressing Women Men and Fiction in the Ancien Regime Author:Nancy K. Miller French Dressing looks at the ancien régime's scenarios of libertine seduction--unsafe sex and its consequences for women's lives. It places the gender performances of male and female-authored novels in dialogue in order to recover the complexity of a century obsessed, as we are today, with writing and ... more »living plots of desire. FrenchDressing exposes the erotic anxieties behind a national culture of sexual self-display--French undressing.« less