Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures Fictions Du Scandale: Corps Féminin Et Réalisme Romanesque Au Dix-Neuviéme Siécle, Book 16, (Hardcover)

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.