The Telling of the Act: Sexuality as Narrative in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century France.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Publication: The Modern Language Review
Publication Date: 01-OCT-03
Author: Phillips, John
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The Telling of the Act: Sexuality as Narrative in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century France. By PETER CRYLE. London: Associated University Presses. 2001. 434 pp. 38 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-87413-748-9.
Peter Cryle's major study of the topoi and metaphors of erotic fiction in pre- and post-Revolutionary France represents an important new contribution to critical writing on this most neglected of genres. Cryle's fine hermeneutical analysis of the detail of language is matched by his impressively wide acquaintance with numerous erotic texts of his chosen...
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