Fictions Du Scandale : Corps Femine Et Realisme Romanesque Au Dix-Neuvieme Siecle (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures)

According to Rogers, the nineteenth century was incapable of managing the feminine question and preferred to mythicize it. Everything that was related to it, especially feminine sexuality, was transformed into fiction. Thus women were saddled with the role of scapegoat.