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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"France Nineteenth-Century"”.
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Masculinity in the nineteenth-century Paris opéra ballet
Beginning in the first half of the nineteenth century, ballerinas overtook male dancers on the stage of the Paris Opéra Ballet and in critical writings about the ballet. At the same time, there was tremendous growth in bourgeois male subscribership to the Opéra. Subscribers engaged in backstage …
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Maisons de presse, Maisons de passe: Prostitution in the Parisian Literary Market, 1830 - 1923
Nineteenth-century French novels are replete with prostitutes. These fictionalized versions of Paris’ real population of venal women and men usually possess an exceptional spirit; yet over the course of the narrative, they are consistently removed from public circulation in society. Literary …