The Reinvention of Obscenity: Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern France by Joan DeJean

The Reinvention of Obscenity: Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern France

Joan DeJean

224 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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The concept of obscenity is an ancient one. But as Joan DeJean suggests, its modern form, the same version that today's politicians decry and savvy artists exploit, was invented in seventeenth-century France.The Reinvention of Obscenity casts a fr...

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