Libertine Enlightenment

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Sex Liberty and Licence in the Eighteenth Century

ISBN: 1403917639
ISBN 13: 9781403917638
Herausgeber: L O’Connell/P Cryle
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xi, 256 S., 8 s/w Illustr., 256 p. 8 illus.
Erscheinungsdatum: 09.12.2003
Auflage: 1/2003
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

The book retrieves a number of neglected historical figures, including a series of scandalous and successful womenThe contributors engage with a variety of eighteenth-century sources, from erotic narrative, literary experimentation and satirical verse to travel writing, promotional pamphlets, journalism, scandal fiction, radical tracts, prostitute memoirs and obscene writingRevises conventional understandings of literary and philosophical libertinismDraws attention to a number of marginal or disreputable eighteenth-century figures – including charlatans, radicals, quacks, prostitutes and adventurers – for whom sexual license served a wide variety of endsForegrounds the important role of libertine sexualities in the formation of modern ‚enlightened‘ politics, literature, media and entertainment

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Beschreibung

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.

Autorenporträt

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

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