Love for Sale – Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia Lucey Hardback

Love for Sale\nby Colleen Lucey\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Colleen Lucey\nTitle: Love for Sale\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literature: history and criticism\nPublisher: Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9781501758867\nISBN-10: 1501758861\nRRP: \u00A344.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nLove for Sale is the first study to examine the ubiquity of commercial sex in Russian literary and artistic production from the nineteenth century through the fin de si\u00E8cle. Colleen Lucey offers a compelling account of how the figure of the sex worker captivated the public''s imagination through depictions in fiction and fine art, bringing to light how imperial Russians grappled with the issue of sexual commerce. Studying a wide range of mediafrom lit.