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Title Libertine enlightenment : sex, liberty, and licence in the eighteenth century / edited by Peter Cryle and Lisa O'Connell.

Imprint New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  305.309033 L615 2004    ---  Available
Description xi, 256 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Taking liberties : Sterne, Wilkes and Warburton / Simon During -- Casanova : inscriptions of forgetting / Chantal Thomas -- Codified indulgence : the niceties of libertine ethics in Casanova and his contemporaries / Peter Cryle -- Kant, Sade and the libertine Enlightenment / Alan Corkhill -- Philosophical liberty, sexual licence : the ambiguity of Voltaire's libertinage / Serge Riviere -- Female rake : gender, libertinism and enlightenment / Kathleen Wilson -- Making of a libertine queen : Jeanne de La Motte and Marie-Antoinette / Iain McCalman -- Secrecy and enlightenment : Delarivier Manley's New Atalantis / Nicola Parsons -- Authorship and libertine celebrity : Harriette Wilson's regency memoirs / Lisa O'Connell -- Libertines and radicals in the 1790s : the strange case of Charles Pigott I / Jonathan Mee -- James Graham as spiritual libertine / Peter Otto -- Mysteries of imposture : Count Cagliostro's literary legacy in German Romanticism / Christa Knellwolf -- Children of the midnight mass / Patrick Wald Lasowski.
Subject Europe -- Moral conditions -- History -- 18th century.
Sex customs -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Libertinism -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Dissenters -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.
Europe -- Intellectual life -- History -- 18th century.
Libertinism in literature.
Added Author Cryle, P. M. (Peter Maxwell), 1946-
O'Connell, Lisa, 1965-
ISBN 1403917639

 
    
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