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Mary McAlpin's scholarly study examines eighteenth-century French literature and medical treatises to analyse how Enlightenment philosophers feared society faced moral decline due to hyper-civilisation. The work investigates a central concern of the era: the belief that young urban girls experienced premature puberty from exposure to scandalous imagery, provocative novels, and improper discussions, which was thought to cause broader physical and moral degeneration. McAlpin explores how-to hygiene books written for parents, medical treatises, and literary works of the period to trace this rhetoric of concern and its cultural implications. This academic study provides valuable insight into the intersection of medical theory, parental guidance, and literary culture during a transformative period in European intellectual history, revealing how anxieties about female development shaped both medical discourse and cultural attitudes in eighteenth-century France.

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Routledge publication offering scholarly analysis of Enlightenment-era attitudes towards female sexuality and cultural decline in eighteenth-century France.

Examines medical treatises and hygiene books intended for parents to understand contemporary theories about premature puberty in young urban girls.

Explores how exposure to lascivious images, provocative novels, and lewd conversations was believed to cause moral and physical degeneration in society.

Combines literary analysis with medical history to reveal the intersection of healthcare guidance and cultural philosophy during the French Enlightenment.

Investigates the rhetoric of societal decline and its connection to anxieties about female development in eighteenth-century medical and literary discourse.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1409422410
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 13 June 2012
Listed Since: 12 November 2011

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