The open secret: Hiding and revealing sexuality in the roman de moeurs (1880-1905)


Autoria(s): Cryle, P. M.
Data(s)

01/03/2006

Resumo

Beginning with the sole literary text that does figure at any length in the first volume of Foucault's history--Diderot's Les Bijoux indiscrets, which dates from 1748--Cryle examines some semiotic routines involved in that telling of secrets, and to understand more about scientia sexualis through its literary development. He tries to show that narratives of the time tended to gather the mysterious, the unknown, and the generally inscrutable in the same functional place, holding them close to a thematics of the sexual. And returns to eighteenth-century texts from time to time in order to mark this as a fundamental shift in the literary constitution of sexual knowledge.

Identificador

http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:82634

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

Columbia University Press

Palavras-Chave #French literature #18th century #Sexuality #Narrative #Semiotics #Scientia sexualis #C1 #420303 Culture, Gender, Sexuality #420206 French #780107 Studies in human society #2005 Literary Studies
Tipo

Journal Article