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French Dressing looks at the ancien régime's scenarios of libertine seduction--unsafe sex and its consequences for women's lives. It places the gender performances of male and female-authored novels in dialogue in order to recover the complexity of a century obsessed, as we are today, with writing and living plots of desire. French Dressing exposes the erotic anxieties behind a national culture of sexual self-display--French undressing.Miller, Nancy K. is the author of 'French Dressing Women, Men and Ancien Regime Fiction' with ISBN 9780415903226 and ISBN 041590322X.
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