Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty, and License in the Eighteenth-Century: Sex Liberty and Licence in the Eighteenth Century - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1403917639 ISBN 13: 9781403917638

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

ALAN CORKHILL Senior Lecturer in German Studies, University of Queensland, AustraliaSIMON DURING Lecturer, Johns Hopkins UniversityCHRISTA KNELLWOLF Researcher, Australian National University, AustraliaIAIN MCCALMAN Director of the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, and President of the Australian Academy of the HumanitiesJONATHAN MEE Margaret Candfield Fellow in English at University College, OxfordPETER OTTO Lecturer, University of Melbourne, AustraliaNICOLA PARSONS Department of English with Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne, AustraliaMARC SERGE RIVIÈRE Professor of French, University of Limerick, IrelandCHANTAL THOMAS Directrice de Recherche, Conseil National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lyons, FrancePATRICK WALD LASOWSKI Université de Paris 8 (Vincennes-Saint-Denis)KATHLEEN WILSON Professor of History, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA

Contenuti:

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

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1403917639
• ISBN 13: 9781403917638
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Redattore: Cryle Peter, O'Connell Lisa