Libertine Enlightenment Sex Liberty and Licence in the Eighteenth Century [Hardcover]

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.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.Rivi?re 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 IndexALAN 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, ló,