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Author : Restif de La Bretonne
Publisher : New York : Random House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Les Nuits de Paris; Or, The Nocturnal Spectator written by Restif de La Bretonne and published by New York : Random House. This book was released on 1964 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Restif De La Bretonne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735477619
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (776 download)
Download or read book Fanchette's Pretty Little Foot written by Restif De La Bretonne and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Restif de la Bretonne
Publisher : Sunny Lou Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781955392099
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Pornographer written by Restif de la Bretonne and published by Sunny Lou Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pornographer (Le Pornographe), written by Restif de la Bretonne and published in 1770 originally, is a novel, in epistolary format, that includes a serious proposal of rules for prostitution, at a state level, to address the problem of syphilis ravaging Europe at the time, as well as a counteractive to the degradation of public morality. To say that French author Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne (1734-1806) was ahead of his time is, for anyone who knows his work, - and they are few - so platitudinous itʼs not funny. The man had an uncanny ability to synthesize history as far back as the Greeks, and that of his own pre-Napoleonic era, and to project it onto our present, his future, as easily as a man casting a shadow on the ground at 3 pm. His ideas on the inequality of the classes, for instance, as a main cause of modern prostitution are both simple and brilliant. His strong words against the poor treatment of Native Americans immediately after the discovery of the New World, from which event syphilis was imported into Europe, is painfully relevant. His support of the working class (the "third estate") and womenʼs rights over that of nobility, Church, and males anticipated ideas later encoded in the laws of Western societies, and the struggles today to keep said laws "honest." Would it surprise any one of his readers that he probably coined the term "Pornographer," over two hundred twenty-five years before the popularization of the Internet? With an eerily hyper-modern, politically correct, opinion on many things - he would have fit in most perfectly in this third decade of the twenty-first century, making many of us modern folk appear old-fashioned and dull - as perhaps no other 18th-century man of letters of France, or of any European country for that matter, could.
Author : Amy S. Wyngaard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611494206
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Bad Books written by Amy S. Wyngaard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bad Books reconstructs how the eighteenth-century French author Nicolas-Edme R tif de la Bretonne and his writings were at the forefront of the development of modern conceptions of sexuality and pornography. Although certain details are well known (for example, that R tif's 1769 treatise on prostitution, Le Pornographe, is the work from which the term pornography is derived, or that he was an avid foot and shoe fetishist), much of this story has been obscured and even forgotten including how the author actively worked to define the category of obscenity and the modern pornographic genre, and how he coined the psycho-sexual term "fetish" and played a central role in the formation of theories of sexual fetishism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Thus this book is also about literary history and how it is written: it explores how R tif, perceived as a bad author in both senses of the term, and his contributions were glossed over or condemned, such that the originality of his texts has still not been fully established. Placing R tif's novels and short stories in dialogue with his autobiographical writings as well as with contemporary and modern critical commentaries, the various chapters of the book examine the author's repeated testing of the limits of censorship to define and redefine the boundaries of obscenity; his advancement of the modern form and definition of pornography through a focus on intimacy and (female) pleasure; his detailed narrative explorations of foot and shoe fetishisms that were later appropriated by the sexologists; and his development of theories of eugenics and reproduction in his utopian science fiction. The history of R tif's texts and their reception reveals an evolution in the criteria of what is considered to be "good" or "worthy" literature--a category once defined purely on moral grounds that is increasingly seen in cultural terms. Bad Books corroborates the recent resurgence of interest in the author by showing the import of his texts, which not only designate a number of firsts in the histories of sexuality and pornography, but which also illuminate some of the defining moments in the history of French literary studies.
Author : Abusaada, Hisham
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799870065
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Transforming Urban Nightlife and the Development of Smart Public Spaces written by Abusaada, Hisham and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-05-14 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public places are places where all citizens, irrespective of their race, age, religion, or class level (social or economic), cannot be excluded. It serves to improve the lifestyle experience of its inhabitants, as well as promote social connections. All citizens are responsible for it and are interested in it, and the intervention for change must be the responsibility of all without exception. As such, bottom-up urban planning is essential for urban environments and for transforming nightlife in public places in order to create more meaningful experiences and instill a greater sense of identity and community. Transforming Urban Nightlife and the Development of Smart Public Spaces analyzes the patterns of transformations of nightlife in public life. The book investigates urban nightlife transformations and the challenge of enhancing the sense of belonging in sensitive areas such as local communities and historical sites. The chapters present new insights to control the chaotic intervention related to the elements of traditional or digital technology, whether from citizens themselves or local authorities. The objective also is to document urban nightlife transformations that enhance the sense of belonging in historical sites. Important topics covered include urban-gamification, digital urban art, urban socio-ecosystems, and reimagining space in the urban nightlife. This book is ideal for urban planners, developers, social scientists, technologists, civil engineers, architects, policymakers, government officials, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students who are interested in urban nightlife and nightscape and the smart technologies used for transformation.
Author : Restif de la Bretonne
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1909923494
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Anti-Justine written by Restif de la Bretonne and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2013-10-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restif de la Bretonne (1734–1806) was perhaps the key author amongst a glut of imitators inspired by the publication of the Marquis de Sade’s “obscene” masterworks Juliette and Justine in the late 18th century. In 1798 Restif wrote his ultra-erotic epic The Anti-Justine (or The Joys of EroS), thus inaugurating a long tradition of “Sadean literature” that continues to this day. The Anti-Justine is a vivid and extreme novelization of Restif’s own life and sexual debauches, which the author tried to defend “morally” by declaring his book to be an “antidote” to the supposed poison of de Sade; yet whilst the book opens with a spurious warning to women against cruelty, it soon develops into a monumental odyssey of sexual depravity which often rivals de Sade in its relentless explicitness. This new edition of THE ANTI-JUSTINE has been freshly translated by Meredith Head (translator of de Sade’s Philosophy In The Boudoir), and contains an introductory essay by de Sade’s biographer Dr Iwan Bloch.
Author : Arlette Farge
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271014326
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Subversive Words written by Arlette Farge and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the book: "Paris was fond of stormy weather and emerging toads; the thirst for knowledge was supreme, and the first to read and reread the news were the first to render it with criticism. Authors and readers, great and small, all shared the impression that they were caught between truth and falsehood, and moreover that the 'probable-improbable' they relished so much was being manipulated by the complex strategies of the court, the police and the petty hordes of the evil-minded. We cannot understand the curiosity of the Parisian public without realizing that they did at least know one thing: the extent they were being made fools of." The eighteenth century was awash with rumor and talk. The words and opinions of ordinary people filled the streets of Paris. But were these simply the isolated grumblings and gossip of the crowd, or is it possible to speak of genuine "public opinion" among the common people? This is the subject of Subversive Words, the newest book by French historian Arlette Farge. Farge begins with Jürgen Habermas's notion of a bourgeois public sphere. However, whereas Habermas was concerned mostly with the "cultured classes," Farge focuses on the uneducated common people. Drawing on chronicles, newspapers, memoirs, police reports, and news sheets from the time, she finds that by the second half of the eighteenth century ordinary Parisians had come to assert their right to hold and declare clear opinions on what was happening in their city--visible, real, everyday events such as executions, price rises, and revolts. Yet the government preferred to regard ordinary Parisians as unsophisticated, impulsive, or inept. In the years leading up to the Revolution, however, the administration increasingly feared the mobilization of these people. Officially, it denied the existence of any distinct popular public opinion, but in practice it kept the streets of Paris under regular surveillance through a system of spies, inspectors, and observers. Amid this curious tension between denial and action, Farge argues, popular rumors arose and gained a life of their own. Wise and filled with vivid descriptions of everyday life, Subversive Words is cultural and intellectual history at its best.
Author : Restif de La Bretonne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book My Father's Life written by Restif de La Bretonne and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert P. Maccubbin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521347686
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (476 download)
Download or read book 'Tis Nature's Fault written by Robert P. Maccubbin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1988 volume addresses sexual phenomena in eighteenth-century Europe that were outside the legal or sanctified systems of acceptability.
Author : David Burke
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458759067
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)
Download or read book Writers in Paris written by David Burke and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No city has attracted so much literary talent, launched so many illustrious careers, or produced such a wealth of enduring literature as Paris. From the 15th century through the 20th, poets, novelists, and playwrights, famed for both their work an...
Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101199555
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Wanderlust written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's Roses Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores--Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers. She profiles some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction--from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja--finding a profound relationship between walking and thinking and walking and culture. Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world.
Author : Guillaume Apollinaire
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1908694157
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Divine Marquis written by Guillaume Apollinaire and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), a rebel poet and general catalyst for the Paris avant-garde of his time, is often regarded as the spiritual forefather of Surrealism (it was he who, in fact, coined the term "surrealist” in 1917). In the early 1900s he began work at the Enfer section of the French national library, a forbidden section reserved for "banned” books, usually of a pornographic nature. Here Apollinaire became familiar with the suppressed works of writers such as Restif de la Bretonne, André Robert Andréa de Nerciat, and above all, the Marquis de Sade. In 1909 he published L'Oeuvre du Marquis de Sade, his famous monograph on Sade and his works (reprinted under the title "The Divine Marquis” in the 1964 Gallimard anthology Les Diables Amoureux). In this ground-breaking treatise, Apollinaire not only documented Sade's literary output, but also helped to establish the writer's revolutionary profile, calling him the "freest spirit who ever lived” and predicting his immense future influence on 20th century literature and thought. ‘The Divine Marquis” is here published in its first-ever English translation, revealing it to be a key work for all those interested in the Marquis de Sade, his writings, and his life, and also of vital interest to those studying Apollinaire and his influence on 20th century literature and literary theory.
Author : Alex Karmel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book My Revolution written by Alex Karmel and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Working away in two rooms on an obscure street is Restif de la Bretonne, an eccentrice 'underground' writer whose salacious works have earned him the title of 'the Rousseau of the gutter' and 'the Voltaire of the chambermades' ... In My Revolution, Alex Karmel has brought to life a fascinating man and a turbulent era with absolute authenticity and wry humor. The six decisive years [of the Revolution] are seen through Restif's eyes, his private concerns interwoven with the great upheaval. Always personal, the narrative shows the development of a revoutionary sensibility. In his more intimate refelations, Restif, the 'Nocturnal Spectator, ' displays a frankness that reminds us that sex, like revolution, is not a twentieth-century invention."--Jacket.
Author : Gerard De Nerval
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939663740
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (637 download)
Download or read book The Illuminated; Or the Precursors of Socialism written by Gerard De Nerval and published by . This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetical biographies of six radical thinkers from Cagliostro to Restif de la Bretonne, by the leading figure of French Romanticism First published in French in 1852, The Illuminated was the first of a string of Gérard de Nerval's late works that would culminate in his posthumous fantastical autobiography Aurélia in 1855. The Illuminated collects six portraits of men whom Nerval mysteriously dubbed "precursors of socialism"--visionaries who together formed an alternative history of France and a backdrop to a mystical form of madness that Nerval ultimately claimed for himself. Nerval here presents the reader with Raoul Spifame, a mad lawyer who imagined himself to be Henry II; the Abbé de Bucquoy, a man who opposed the monarchy and whose amazing escapes suggested the possession of magical powers; Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne, the 18th-century theosophist who defined God in human terms rather than spiritual; the Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, the famous magus and alchemist; Jacques Cazotte, author of The Devil in Love, who created a synthesis between hermetic ideas and Catholic thought; and Quintus Aucler, a lawyer who sought to revive paganism in the unstable world of French society in the immediate aftermath of the Revolution of 1789. An overlooked work by Nerval, The Illuminated brings together the picturesque and pathos, a peculiar gallery of portraits that blur the boundaries between mysticism and mystification. Gérard de Nerval (1808-55) was a writer, poet and translator who wedded French and German Romanticism and transformed his research into mystic thought and his bouts of mental illness into such visionary works as Aurélia.
Author : Guillaume Apollinaire
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1908694165
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)
Download or read book The Eleven Thousand Rods written by Guillaume Apollinaire and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Guillaume Apollinaire's THE ELEVEN THOUSAND RODS (Les Onze Mille Verges), debauched aristocrat Mony Vibescu and a circle of fellow sybarites blaze a trail of uncontrollable lust, bloody cruelty and depravity across the streets of Europe. Published in 1907 after Apollinaire's researches at the Enfer section of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, in which he encountered the suppressed "pornographic” work of such authors as de Sade, Restif de la Bretonne and Andrea de Nerciat, THE ELEVEN THOUSAND RODS is a startling modernist response to those "old masters” of erotica, purposefully expanding and detonating the extremes of obscenity as far as the human imagination will allow. This special centenary edition is the only uncensored version available, in a new modern translation by Alexis Lykiard, complete with introduction and notes.
Author : Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Publisher : Puffin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780140551617
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Love, Death and Money in the Pays D'Oc written by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick J. Kearney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Paris Olympia Press written by Patrick J. Kearney and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Olympia Press published numerous books that defied censorship laws. Written by an Olympia book-smuggler turned bibliographer, The Paris Olympia Press provides an excellent account of the Press, its books and its authors, and includes a full bibliography, an overview of censorship laws and a foreword by the late Maurice Girodias, Olympia Press's founder.
