Libertinism, socialism, and bibliophilia: The publisher, Jules Gay
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2019.
Sujet(s) : Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : Jules Gay was a prolific publisher of licentious works in the Ancien Régime. He was also a committed socialist. We look here at possible links between these two aspects of his career, treated separately by historiographers up to now. His socialist writings defended sexual liberty and attacked the hypocrisy of the legal and political treatment of obscenity—something his own trade in bibliophilic editions had fallen victim to. Gay’s case reveals the ideological and social ambiguity of publishing licentious writing in the Second Empire and the early Third Republic, a practice that provided both support for an emancipatory discourse, and pleasure for an elite of collectors.
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Jules Gay was a prolific publisher of licentious works in the Ancien Régime. He was also a committed socialist. We look here at possible links between these two aspects of his career, treated separately by historiographers up to now. His socialist writings defended sexual liberty and attacked the hypocrisy of the legal and political treatment of obscenity—something his own trade in bibliophilic editions had fallen victim to. Gay’s case reveals the ideological and social ambiguity of publishing licentious writing in the Second Empire and the early Third Republic, a practice that provided both support for an emancipatory discourse, and pleasure for an elite of collectors.
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