The Lettres Portugaises: Scripting and selling female desire.
This article builds on previous literary scholarship to analyse the social and publication history of the enormously successful Lettres portugaises (1669), five letters published in the voice of an anonymous Portuguese nun to a French officer. Although the letters were based on an ancient model, thi...
| Publicado en: | Gender & History Vol. 36; no. 2; pp. 369 - 386 |
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