Libertinage and modernity
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Libertinage and modernity
(Yale French studies, no. 94)
Yale University Press, c1998
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume represents an interdisciplinary attempt to redefine libertinage as an 18th-century artistic and literary movement primarily concerned with seduction and sexual desire. Libertinage is explored from both ethical and aesthetic perspectives.
Table of Contents
- Part I Dark desire: libertinage and feminism, Nancy Miller
- libertinage and figurations of desire, Georges Benrekassa
- libertinage and rationality, Jean-Pierre Dubost
- the libertine movement, Thomas Kavanagh
- from the mark to the mask, Carole Martin
- the immortals, Pierre Saint-Amand. Part II Epiphanies: thoughts for a definition of libertine fiction and pornographic novels, Jean-Marie Goulemot
- accessories of desire, Bernadette Fort
- "l'etourdi gynotrope", Philippe Roger
- the role of female homosexuality in Casanova's memoirs, Chantel Thomas
- Sadean libertinage and the esthetics of violence, Lucienne Frappier-Mazur
- what is libertinage?, Philippe Sollers.
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