Engraven Desire: Eros, Image, and Text in the French Eighteenth Century

by Philip Stewart

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How do literary illustrations affect the way we read-or more subtly, what we read? Through a critical investigation of the role of engraving played in eighteenth-century French literature, Philip Stewart grapples with this question. In both its approach and its conclusions, his project marks a provocative departure from the tradition of viewing illustrations as merely pictures, rather than as texts to be interpreted themselves.
Focusing on the objectification of women by the "male gaze," Stewart analyzes the varous ways in which this masculine power is simultaneously represented and veiled: the fascination with women playing "male" roles, such as soldiers;...Read more
  • ISBN10 0822311771
  • ISBN13 9780822311775
  • Publish Date 31 January 1992
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Duke University Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 384
  • Language English