Men, Money and Meals

an Alimentary Reading of Margot la ravaudeuse (1753)

Authors

  • Catherine Rose Ellis Independent Scholar Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.27784

Keywords:

Margo la Ravaudeuse, literary genre, libertine novel, food and sex, 18th century, france, consumption as literary/dramatic device, animality, demi-monde, social mobility, desire, anti-clericalism, coffee, ragout, metaphor, civilization, gastronomic nationalism, anti-british

Abstract

This article looks at the literal and figurative role of consumption in Fougeret de Monbron’s 1753 libertine novel, Margot la ravaudeuse (in English, Margot the stocking-mender). 

Author Biography

  • Catherine Rose Ellis, Independent Scholar

    Catherine Rose Ellis received her doctorate from the University of Durham in 2018 for her thesis ‘Sex Work and Ingestion in Eighteenth-Century France’.

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Published

2022-04-01

Issue

PPC 122 (2022)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Ellis, Catherine Rose. 2022. “Men, Money and Meals: An Alimentary Reading of Margot La Ravaudeuse (1753)”. Petits Propos Culinaires, April, 13-32. https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.27784.