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When Flesh Becomes Word
Suitable for scholars and students of British literature, this text is a collection of nine different examples of British libertine literature that appeared before 1750.
The Libertine
A delightfully illustrated literary anthology that explores the fantasies, seductions, and intrigues of the eighteenth-century French lover This sumptuous volume presents more than eighty selections from eighteenth-century French literature, each concerning some facet of the game of love as practiced by the libertine, or the freethinking aristocratic hedonist, a type that flourished—not least in literature—in the declining years of the Ancien Régime. These pieces, which include fiction, drama, verse, essays, and letters, are the work of some sixty writers, both familiar—such as Voltaire, Rousseau, and, of course, the Marquis de Sade—and lesser-known. Each selection is illustrated by well-chosen period artworks, many rarely seen, by Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, and numerous others. Racy, thought-provoking, and a treat for the eyes, The Libertine is the perfect gift for litterateurs, art lovers, roués, and coquettes.
Libertine Strategies
Discusses the development of the French novel
Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility, 1670-1730
In the first full-length study of the figure of the female libertine in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century literature, Laura Linker examines heroines appearing in literature by John Dryden, Aphra Behn, Catharine Trotter, Delariviere Manley, and Daniel Defoe. Linker argues that this figure, partially inspired by Epicurean ideas found in Lucretius's De rerum natura, interrogates gender roles and assumptions and emerges as a source of considerable tension during the late Stuart and early Georgian periods. Witty and rebellious, the female libertine becomes a frequent satiric target because of her transgressive sexuality. As a result of negative portrayals of lady libertines, women wr...
Libertines and the Law
This study sheds new light on the trials of 'libertine' authors (a term for religious, sexual, social or moral subversion), by considering them primarily as legal defendants.
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Two French Libertine Novels
"Students of eigtheenth-century culture and the French Enlightenment will welcome these first translations into English of Duclos's only two novels. They offer a unique view of French society by the one author permitted his franc parler--blunt speaking--by Louis XV. Readers of the time were certainly grateful, as the novels satisfied the public's growing interest in the private lives of their contemporaries. The books sold well throughout the century, were admired by writers as different as Montesquieu and Rousseau, and inspired later novelists like Diderot, Laclos, and de Sade."--Publisher's website.
Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London
Analyses English sexual culture between the Civil Wars and the death of Charles II.
