Joan DeJean
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| + | "[[Malesherbes]]’s usage of the term “[[obscenity]]” attests to the currency the concept had gained in France by the mid eighteenth century. As [[Joan DeJean]] has demonstrated [in ''[[The Reinvention of Obscenity]]''], [[obscenity]] emerged as a category during the second half of the seventeenth century, following the 1655 publication of ''[[L'École des filles|L’École des filles, ou la philosophie des dames]]'', the first obscene prose work to appear in French and the inaugural text of the new genre of [[pornosophy|erotic “philosophy.”]] The [[sexually explicit]] work was deemed unacceptable." --''[[A Monster for Our Times: Reading Sade across the Centuries]]''[https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/download/fedora_content/download/ac:130790/CONTENT/Bridge_columbia_0054D_10061.pdf] (2011) is a tex by [[Matthew Bridge]]. | ||
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| - | : "The trial of the poet [[Théophile de Viau]] in [[1623]] is a milestone both in the reinvention of [[obscenity]] and in the history of [[censorship]]..." --''The Reinvention of Obscenity : Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern France'' (2002) - [[Joan DeJean]] ISBN 0226141403 | + | Professor '''Joan DeJean''' is Professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages best-known for her book ''[[The Reinvention of Obscenity : Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern France]]''. Her areas of research include 17th- and 18th-century [[French literature]], the history of [[women's writing]] in France, the [[history of sexuality]], the development of the novel, and the cultural history of late 17th- and early 18th-century France. She is the author of more than five books, including ''[[Ancients Against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Siècle]]'', which was a finalist for the prestigious James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association in 1998. |
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| - | == ''The Reinvention of Obscenity : Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern France'' == | + | |
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| - | *How and when did obscene words come to be considered obscene? How did the modern definition of "four-letter" words become accepted? These are some of the questions explored in The Reinvention of Obscenity. Joan DeJean shows how radically the modern conception of obscenity differs from that operative in antiquity, when obscene literature was produced exclusively for an elite male audience. [[Obscenity]], DeJean argues, was reinvented when writers began to focus on two subjects previously unimagined: female genitalia and compulsory heterosexuality. The story of obscenity's reinvention is also that of the birth of modern censorship, mass-market print culture, and even tabloid journalism. DeJean's principal example is the career of the first truly modern writer, Molière, who cannily exploited the obscene to revolutionize the conditions of authorship. | + | |
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| * DeJean, Joan. ''The Essence of Style: How the French Invented Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafés, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour.'' New York: Free Press, 2005 ISBN 0743264142 | * DeJean, Joan. ''The Essence of Style: How the French Invented Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafés, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour.'' New York: Free Press, 2005 ISBN 0743264142 | ||
| + | * DeJean, Joan. ''[[The Reinvention of Obscenity : Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern France]]'' (2002) ISBN 0226141403 | ||
| + | * [[Joan DeJean]], ''Ancients against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Siecle'', Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1997. | ||
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"Malesherbes’s usage of the term “obscenity” attests to the currency the concept had gained in France by the mid eighteenth century. As Joan DeJean has demonstrated [in The Reinvention of Obscenity], obscenity emerged as a category during the second half of the seventeenth century, following the 1655 publication of L’École des filles, ou la philosophie des dames, the first obscene prose work to appear in French and the inaugural text of the new genre of erotic “philosophy.” The sexually explicit work was deemed unacceptable." --A Monster for Our Times: Reading Sade across the Centuries[1] (2011) is a tex by Matthew Bridge. |
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Professor Joan DeJean is Professor of French in the Department of Romance Languages best-known for her book The Reinvention of Obscenity : Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern France. Her areas of research include 17th- and 18th-century French literature, the history of women's writing in France, the history of sexuality, the development of the novel, and the cultural history of late 17th- and early 18th-century France. She is the author of more than five books, including Ancients Against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Siècle, which was a finalist for the prestigious James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association in 1998.
References
- DeJean, Joan. The Essence of Style: How the French Invented Fashion, Fine Food, Chic Cafés, Style, Sophistication, and Glamour. New York: Free Press, 2005 ISBN 0743264142
- DeJean, Joan. The Reinvention of Obscenity : Sex, Lies, and Tabloids in Early Modern France (2002) ISBN 0226141403
- Joan DeJean, Ancients against Moderns: Culture Wars and the Making of a Fin de Siecle, Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 1997.
