Sex and the Citizen: Reproductive Manuals and Fashionable Readers under the Napoleonic State

In the early years of the Napoleonic regime, following the budding flow of physiognomic texts, another craze hit Paris high society: a vogue for self-help manuals that taught readers the art of having gifted, healthy, and beautiful children—preferably boys. This best-seller genre included the anonym...

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1. Verfasser: Quinlan, Sean M
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Zusammenfassung:In the early years of the Napoleonic regime, following the budding flow of physiognomic texts, another craze hit Paris high society: a vogue for self-help manuals that taught readers the art of having gifted, healthy, and beautiful children—preferably boys. This best-seller genre included the anonymous De la Propagation du genre humain, ou manuel indispensable pour ceux qui veulent avoir de beaux enfants de l’un ou l’autre sexe (1799), J.-A. Millot’s L’Art de procréer les sexes à volonté, ou Système complet de génération (1800), L.-J.-M. Robert’s Essai sur la mégalantropogénésie, ou l’art de faire des enfants d’esprit, qui deviennent des
DOI:10.1515/9781501758348-009