Libertinage and modernity
By: edited by Catherine Cusset.
Contributors: Cusset, Catherine, 1963-
Series: Yale French studies -- 94.; Yale French studies -- no. 94.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New Haven; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Libertinism -- France; Libertines (French philosophers) -- Influence -- History -- 18th century
Table of contents: title: I.; title: Dark desire.; title: Libertinage and feminism -- Nancy K. Miller ;; title: Libertinage and figurations of desire : the legend of a century -- Geroges Benrekassa ;; title: Libertinage and rationality : from the 'will to knowledge' to libertine textuality -- Jean-Pierre Dubost ; The; title: libertine moment -- Thomas M. Kavanagh ;; title: From the mark to the mask : notes on libertinage and utopianism -- Carole F. Marin ; The; title: Immortals -- Pierre Saint-Amand -- II.; title: Epiphanies.; title: Toward a definition of libertine fiction and pornographic novels -- Jean-Marie Goulemot ;; title: Accessories of desire : on indecency in a few paintings by Jean-Baptiste Greuze -- Bernadette Fort ; The; title: distracted womanizer -- Philippe Roger ; The; title: role of female homosexuality in Casanova's memoirs -- Chantal Thomas ;; title: Sadean libertinage and the esthetics of violence -- Lucienne Frappier-Mazur ;; title: What is libertinage?-- Philippe Sollers.