Libertine Enlightenment: Sex Liberty and Licence in the Eighteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9781349513505 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 256 str.

L. O'Connell; P. Cryle

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Sex in the Eighteenth-century was not simply a pleasure; it had profound philosophical and political implications. This book explores those implications, and in particular the links between sexual freedom and liberty in a variety of European and British contexts. Discussing prostitutes and politicians, philosophers and charlatans, confidence tricksters and novelists, Libertine Enlightenment presents a fascinating overview of the sexual dimension of enlightened modernity.

Spis treści

List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction PART I: DISQUIETING THEORIES Taking Liberties: Sterne, Wilkes and Warburton; S.During Casanova: Inscriptions of Forgetting; C.Thomas Codified Indulgence: The Niceties of Libertine Ethics in Casanova and His Contemporaries; P.Cryle Kant, Sade and the Libertine Enlightenment; A.Corkhill Philosophical Liberty, Sexual Licence: The Ambiguity of Voltaire's Libertinage; S.Rivière PART II: IMPROPER WOMEN The Female Rake: Gender, Libertinism and Enlightenment; K.Wilson The Making of a Libertine Queen: Jeanne de la Motte and Marie-Antoinette; I.McCalman Secrecy and Enlightenment: Delarivier Manley's New Atlantis ; N.Parsons Authorship and Libertine Celebrity: Harriette Wilson's Regency Memoirs; L.O'Connell PART III: SPURIOUS PRACTICES Libertines and Radicals in the 1790s: The Strange Case of Charles Pigott I; J.Mee James Graham as Spiritual Libertine; P.Otto The Mysteries of Imposture: Count Cagliostro's Literary Legacy in German Romanticism; C.Knellwolf Children of the Midnight Mass; P.W.Lasowski Index

O autorze

ALAN CORKHILL Senior Lecturer in German Studies, University of Queensland, Australia SIMON DURING Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University CHRISTA KNELLWOLF Researcher, Australian National University, Australia IAIN MCCALMAN Director of the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, and President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities JONATHAN MEE Margaret Candfield Fellow in English at University College, Oxford PETER OTTO Lecturer, University of Melbourne, Australia NICOLA PARSONS Department of English with Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia MARC SERGE RIVIÈRE Professor of French, University of Limerick, Ireland CHANTAL THOMAS Directrice de Recherche, Conseil National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lyons, France PATRICK WALD LASOWSKI Université de Paris 8 (Vincennes-Saint-Denis) KATHLEEN WILSON Professor of History, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA