Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures and Tables
- Introduction: Venal Bodies – Prostitutes and Eighteenth-Century Culture
- Part I (Auto)Biographical and Classificatory Fictions: Madams, Courtesans, Whores
- 1 Classifying the Prostitute in Eighteenth-Century France
- 2 In Her Own Words: An Eighteenth-Century Madam Tells Her Story
- 3 ‘All the World Knows Her Storie’: Aphra Behn and the Duchess of Mazarin
- 4 Marie Petit's Persian Adventure (1705–8): The Eastward Travels of a French ‘Concubine’
- 5 ‘A First-Rate Whore’: Prostitution and Empowerment in the Early Eighteenth Century
- Part II Visibility and Theatricality: Fiction, Image and Performance
- Part III The Magdalen House: Marriage, Motherhood, Social Reintegration
- Part IV Wider Perspectives: Constructing the Prostitute in Social History
- Notes
- Index
3 - ‘All the World Knows Her Storie’: Aphra Behn and the Duchess of Mazarin
from Part I - (Auto)Biographical and Classificatory Fictions: Madams, Courtesans, Whores
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures and Tables
- Introduction: Venal Bodies – Prostitutes and Eighteenth-Century Culture
- Part I (Auto)Biographical and Classificatory Fictions: Madams, Courtesans, Whores
- 1 Classifying the Prostitute in Eighteenth-Century France
- 2 In Her Own Words: An Eighteenth-Century Madam Tells Her Story
- 3 ‘All the World Knows Her Storie’: Aphra Behn and the Duchess of Mazarin
- 4 Marie Petit's Persian Adventure (1705–8): The Eastward Travels of a French ‘Concubine’
- 5 ‘A First-Rate Whore’: Prostitution and Empowerment in the Early Eighteenth Century
- Part II Visibility and Theatricality: Fiction, Image and Performance
- Part III The Magdalen House: Marriage, Motherhood, Social Reintegration
- Part IV Wider Perspectives: Constructing the Prostitute in Social History
- Notes
- Index
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- Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century CultureSex, Commerce and Morality, pp. 45 - 58Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014