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• Winner of AATSEEL Best First Book 2022 (United States)

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Lucey's interdisciplinary approach to the subject offers the reader a comprehensive understanding of the key characterizations and tropes associated with fictional sex workers, contextualizing her close readings of literature and art within the lived realities for individuals in the sex industry during that time. * EuropeNow * Lucey adds a fresh, literary perspective on well-explored questions of female prostitution, promiscuity, and domestic oppression in the period between 1843 and 1905. * Russian Review * Love for Sale contributes to scholarly discussions about sex work, representations of women in the literary and visual arts, and women's writing, among others. It is rigorously interdisciplinary and offers important insights into the relationship between nineteenth-century visual, literary, and professional cultures. * Revolutionary Russia * Love for Sale is an essential book for historians, literary scholars, and students working on themes related to gender and sexuality. Conceptually ambitious, elegantly written, and sensitive to the reverberations of the topic in the present day, Lucey's impressive work deserves the widest possible audience. * Modern Language Review *

Lucey's interdisciplinary approach to the subject offers the reader a comprehensive understanding of the key characterizations and tropes associated with fictional sex workers, contextualizing her close readings of literature and art within the lived realities for individuals in the sex industry during that time. * EuropeNow *

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Colleen Lucey is Assistant Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at the University of Arizona.

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