Berlin Coquette — Smith Mugs Introduction by Wesley McNair

Introduction by Wesley McNair

Cosmo and the Pope's daughter encounter film-noir homicide detectives

Ten years in the writing

and especially in unsettled areas on Moosehead Lake in Maine

following his emigration to Africa

Berlin Coquette — Smith Mugs Introduction by Wesley McNairBy Jill Suzanne Smith Associate Professor of German During the late nineteenth century the city of Berlin developed such a reputation for lawlessness and sexual licentiousness that it came to be known as the Whore of Babylon. Out of this reputation for debauchery grew an unusually rich discourse around prostitution. In Berlin Coquette, Jill Suzanne Smith shows how this discourse transcended the usual clichs about prostitutes and actually explored