The Libertine's Nemesis: The Prude in Clarissa and the Roman Libertin

ISBN-13: 9780367603380 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 182 str.

James Fowler

Opis

This book discusses Fowler's thesis on the establishment of a symbiotic relationship between the libertine and the prude in a number of key eighteenth-century texts. He stresses that prude and libertine need each other to define themselves, a symbiosis most graphically enacted in the Sadean orgy.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Les Égarements du cœur et de l’esprit 2. Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady 3. Les Liaisons dangereuses 4. La Nouvelle Justine, ou les Malheurs de la vertu, suivie de l’Histoire de Juliette, sa sœur 5. Conclusion

O autorze

James Fowler