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Foucault's Virginity
Ancient Erotic Fiction and the History of Sexuality
by Simon Goldhill
ISBN: 0521473721
ISBN-13: 9780521473729
Format: Hardcover
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"The occasional critical overshoot, however, is a price worth paying for Goldhill's detailed demonstration of the novels' narrative intricacy, and for his making available to the historian of sexuality such rich seams of new and fascinating material." -- James Davidson
-- London Review of Books
"Although some scholars have treated Foucault's 'Histoire' reverently, as if it were a fifth Gospel, Goldhill shows, in this lively and intelligent book, that the situation is more complex and infinitely more interesting than Foucault and his followers might have supposed." -- Mary Lefkowitz
-- Times Literary Supplement
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Published date: 1995
Size: 5.75 x 9 inches
Weight: 0.75 pounds
Pages: 194
Publisher's Notes
This is a study of how sex and sexuality were written about in the first centuries of this era, a central period in the history of sexuality. Writing with the same wit and verve as the ancient writers he engages with, Simon Goldhill shows how the standard accounts of sexuality in this period are distorted by ignoring the sexy, ironic and often bizarre texts of the ancient novel, erotic poetry and humorous dialogues.
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