by Alain Corbin · Le Grand Livre Du Mois · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782286041076
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«L'harmonie des plaisirs: Les manières de jouir du siècle des Lumières à l'avènement de la sexologie» is the historical essay by Alain Corbin, in paperback.
Essay on carnal pleasure between the Age of Enlightenment and the advent of sexology, before the term «sexuality». Corbin draws on doctors, theologians and pornographers: female pleasure was expressed in religious terms and virility was measured by performance and conquest. These norms and transgressions shaped desires, pleasures and remorse.
Alain Corbin, historian of sensibilities, wrote this work published by Le Grand Livre du Mois in 2008; the text, in French, runs to 542 pages.
A work for those interested in the history of the body, sensibilities and sexuality in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Alain Corbin is a French historian. He is a specialist of the 19th century in France and in microhistory.
