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OFigures of Ill Repute brilliantly explores the prostituteOs embodiment of the threat of female sexuality and her subjection to artistic strategies of containment. [BernheimerOs] compelling readings of Balzac, Manet, and Zola and his provocative discussions of Flaubert and Degas advance debates about sexuality and representation and refocus the history of modernity.ONJonathan Culler O[A]n important work... Shifting nimbly from close textual analysis to biographical or scientific information, from psychoanalytic speculation to anecdotes of social history, this original, exciting study offers ... a truly liberal view of the seriousness and importance of all our representational activities.ONLeo Bersani OA remarkable achievement that can be recommended to anyone in nineteenth-century European culture.ONFrancine du Plessix Gray, New York interested Review of Books OFigures of Ill Repute is no less than a brilliant achievement in the debates on sexuality and representation.ONHeather Dawkins, Art History OCombining psychoanalysis, narrative theory, new historicism, and the newly minted approaches of Omen in feminism,O Bernheimer traces male fantasies of the prostitute from Balzac to Huysmans. An impressive sweep of the nineteenth-century canon is brought into play... [A] pioneering work.ONEmily Apter, Novel O[A] fund of insights into the phobias and fantasies that have inspired men to treat womenNand to represent female sexuality, commodified or notNas inherently corrupt, rapacious, and full of danger.ONFrances Gouda, WomenOs Review of Books

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Charles Bernheimer is Professor of Romance Languages and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Flaubert and Kafka and coeditor of In Dora’s Case.

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