Chad Denton: 2 books
Decadence, Radicalism, and the Early Modern French Nobility
The Enlightened and Depraved
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
The image of the debauched French aristocrat of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is one that still has power over the international public imagination, from the unending fascination with the Marquis de Sade to the successes of the film Ridicule. Drawing on memoirs, letters, popular songs and...
The War on Sex
Western Repression from the Torah to Victoria
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
From earliest times, sex has fascinated and repulsed society in equal measure. In an effort to untangle Western society’s complex relationship with the realities of sex, this provocative volume explores the ways in which governments, religious leaders and cultures in Europe tried to regulate sex...