To browse Academia. Paintings, sculptures, photographs, films, furniture and objects led to so many encounters with the protagonists of a shady world that intrigues, attracts, turns off, repulses, questions without ever becoming tiresome. Prostitution supplies a demand that is constantly seeking to be met. Due to financial need, involuntary force, poor education, and just bad luck many women have fallen into this profession that will always be available to the misfortunate.
This was no different in both the rural and urban parts of the United States during the 19th century. In Anne M. Sanger, the lives and experiences of New York prostitutes during this same time are described.
Analysis of each theses presented by both authors will be explored to compare their two different uses of sources primary and secondary and the effectiveness of those sources towards their arguments. French terms are referenced throughout this dissertation so I have included a glossary of translations after the concluding chapter. Briefly summarised, Chapter One explores the body observed: the body as myth, the body as spectacle, and the body in and evading the narrative field of vision.
Chapter Three is concerned with the function of environment in the novel, particularly spaces of modernity and how they operate on gender. Nana is, once again, the centre of the hurricane; the focal point of sexual frenzy, the sexual narrative, and of its analysis; a site for the inscription of moral, political and social ideological commentary to which all symbolism returns.
Rather, the naturalist novel anticipates the immobilisation of its excessive commitment to descriptive realism; it signals the significance of its apparent contradictions as crucial to the topos with which it is engaged; its calls attention to formal and thematic dissonance, and in turn, the historical circumstances it seeks to expose.
