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

Edition First edition Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 274 pages) : illustrations Contents Cover; The Amorous Restoration: Love, Sex, and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century France; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on the Text; Introduction: Love, Sex, Politics; MOTLEY MORES; SEX AND POLITICS; THE LANGUAGE OF SEX (AND POLITICS); THE LANGUAGE OF LOVE; TERMS AND METHODS; 1: Impediments: Critiques of Marriage in Restoration France; PART 1: THE TROUBLE WITH MARRIAGE: MARITAL MISERY IN THE BORING 20'S; Politics of the Impediment: The Case of Divorce; PART 2: THE IMPEDIMENT NOVEL: IN SEARCH OF A HIGHER LOVE Impediments and the Liberal NovelRadical Romanticism?; CODA: SAME-SEX UNIONS UNDER THE RESTORATION?; 2: Good Breeding: Romanticism, Aristocracy, and Reproduction; LIBERALISM AND THE CHILD OF THE FUTURE; A WEALTH OF SORROWS; REPRODUCTIVE ARISTOCRATS; LINES ON THE BIRTH OF THE DUC DE BORDEAUX; CODA: THE QUEER ARISTOCRACY; 3: Gallantries: The Literature of Sexual Worldliness under the Restoration; THE LITERATURE OF THE PALAIS-ROYAL; THE LIBERTINE INHERITANCE; THE LANGUAGE OF GALLANTRY; GALLANTRY AND MARRIAGE; CONCLUSION; 4: Olivier in the Closet: Gossip, Scandal, and the Novel in the 1820s THE QUERELLE D'OLIVIER: WHO WROTE WHAT?PUBLICITY AND SEXUAL POLITICS IN THE QUERELLE; GOSSIP IN THE OLIVIER NOVELS; OLIVIER IN THE CLOSET; CONCLUSION; 5: The Sexual Monster: Celibacy and the Anticlerical Imagination; THE MONSTROSITY OF MINGRAT; UNDER THE SIGN OF MINGRAT; PICTURING THE SCENE; PUBLICITY AND SCANDAL; PRIVACY AND SECRECY; CONCLUSION; 6: 1830: The End of an Eros? Nodier and Fourier on the History of Sexuality; THE GOLDEN AGE OF INCEST; O TEMPORA, O MORES!; FOURIER, QUEER THEORIST; SEXUAL REVOLUTIONS; NODIER'S RELATIVISM; CONCLUSION; Coda: Secret Love Affairs of the Bourbons THE INDISCRETIONS OF YOUTHPLUS ÇA CHANGE . . .; SCANDAL AS MORAL DUTY; Bibliography; CORRESPONDENCES, MEMOIRS, AND JOURNALS; OTHER PRIMARY PUBLISHED SOURCES; ARCHIVAL SOURCES; NEWSPAPERS; SECONDARY MATERIAL; Index Summary This volume explores the intertwining of love and politics in post-revolutionary literature of nineteenth-century France, under the Bourbon Restoration. Andrew J. Counter draws on a variety of genres, from poetry to gossip, to recreate a pivotal moment in the transition from an amorous old regime to erotic - and political - modernity Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Love in literature -- History -- 19th century Sex in literature -- History -- 19th century Politics and literature -- France -- History -- 19th century Erotic literature, French -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French. Erotic literature, French French literature Love in literature Politics and literature Sex in literature France Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191827709 0191827703 0191089109 9780191089107

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