Andrew J. Counter is Associate Professor of French at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College. He has previously held positions at King's College London and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and studied French at Christ's College, Cambridge. He works on all aspects of nineteenth-century French cultural life. His first book, Inheritance in Nineteenth-Century French Culture: Wealth, Knowledge, and the Family appeared with Legenda in 2010.

The Amorous Restoration combines lucid analysis with provocative-often juicy-subject matter. It is a welcome contribution to the field of nineteenth-century French studies, which too often glosses over, or hurries past, its supposedly-retrograde first decade-and-a-half. As Counter convincingly demonstrates, the Restorations very contradictions and tensions, played out across its literary productions, make for compelling reading.

• Introduction: Love, Sex, Politics 1: Impediments: Critiques of Marriage in Restoration France 2: Good Breeding: Romanticism, Aristocracy, and Reproduction 3: Gallantries: Literature of Sexual Worldliness under the Restoration 4: Olivier in the Closet: Gossip, Scandal, and the Novel in the 1820s 5: The Sexual Monster: Celibacy and the Anticlerical Imagination 6: 1830: The End of an Eros?: Nodier and Fourier on the History of Sexuality Coda: Secret Love Affairs of the Bourbons Bibliography Index

Andrew J. Counter is Associate Professor of French at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of New College. He has previously held positions at King's College London and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and studied French at Christ's College, Cambridge. He works on all aspects of nineteenth-century French cultural life. His first book, Inheritance in Nineteenth-Century French Culture: Wealth, Knowledge, and the Family appeared with Legenda in 2010.

The Amorous Restoration combines lucid analysis with provocative-often juicy-subject matter. It is a welcome contribution to the field of nineteenth-century French studies, which too often glosses over, or hurries past, its supposedly-retrograde first decade-and-a-half. As Counter convincingly demonstrates, the Restorations very contradictions and tensions, played out across its literary productions, make for compelling reading.

• Introduction: Love, Sex, Politics 1: Impediments: Critiques of Marriage in Restoration France 2: Good Breeding: Romanticism, Aristocracy, and Reproduction 3: Gallantries: Literature of Sexual Worldliness under the Restoration 4: Olivier in the Closet: Gossip, Scandal, and the Novel in the 1820s 5: The Sexual Monster: Celibacy and the Anticlerical Imagination 6: 1830: The End of an Eros?: Nodier and Fourier on the History of Sexuality Coda: Secret Love Affairs of the Bourbons Bibliography Index