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
- Part II Visibility and Theatricality: Fiction, Image and Performance
- 6 Prostitutes and Erotic Performances in Eighteenth-Century Paris
- 7 Visible Prostitutes: Mandeville, Hogarth and ‘A Harlot's Progress’
- 8 The Narrative Sources of Candide's Paquette
- 9 The Prostitute as Neo-Manager: Sade's Juliette and the New Spirit of Capitalism
- Part III The Magdalen House: Marriage, Motherhood, Social Reintegration
- Part IV Wider Perspectives: Constructing the Prostitute in Social History
- Notes
- Index
6 - Prostitutes and Erotic Performances in Eighteenth-Century Paris
from Part II - Visibility and Theatricality: Fiction, Image and Performance
- 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
- Part II Visibility and Theatricality: Fiction, Image and Performance
- 6 Prostitutes and Erotic Performances in Eighteenth-Century Paris
- 7 Visible Prostitutes: Mandeville, Hogarth and ‘A Harlot's Progress’
- 8 The Narrative Sources of Candide's Paquette
- 9 The Prostitute as Neo-Manager: Sade's Juliette and the New Spirit of Capitalism
- 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. 87 - 98Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014