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Libertines in literature --- Sensuality in literature

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French literature --- Libertines in literature. --- Libertinism in literature. --- Literatura europea --- Historia y crítica

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Libertines in literature --- English literature --- Libertins dans la littérature --- Littérature anglaise --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique

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"Out of the libertine literary tradition of eighteenth-century France emerged over a dozen memoir novels of female libertines who eagerly take up sex work as a means of escape from the patriarchal control of fathers and husbands to pursue pleasure, wealth, and personal independence outside the private, domestic sphere. In these anonymously published novels, the heroines proudly declare themselves prostitutes, or putains, and use the desire they arouse, the professional skills they develop, and the network of female friends they create to exploit, humiliate, and financially ruin wealthy and powerful men. In pursuing their desires, the putains challenge contemporary notions of womanhood and expose the injustices of ancien-régime France. Until the French Revolution spelled the end of the genre, these novels proposed not only an appealing libertine utopia in which libertine women enjoy the same benefits as their male counterparts, but also entirely new ways of looking at systems of power, gender, and sexuality"--

Autobiographical fiction, French --- French fiction --- Prostitutes in literature --- Libertines in literature --- Women in literature --- History and criticism

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Much of the previous scholarship on Russia's literary discourses of sexuality and eroticism in the Silver Age was built on applying European theoretical models (from psychoanalysis to feminist theory) to Russia's modernization. This book argues that, at the turn into the twentieth century, Russian popular culture for the first time found itself in direct confrontation with the traditional high cultures of the upper classes and intelligentsia, producing modernized representations of sexuality. This Russian tradition of conflicted representations, heretofore misassessed by literary history, emerges as what Foucault would call a full-blown “bio-history” of Russian culture: a history of indigenous representations of sexuality and the eroticized body capable of innovation on its own terms, not just those derivative from Europe.

Russian literature --- Libertines in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Dissolute persons in literature --- Licentious persons in literature --- Profligates in literature --- Rakes in literature --- History and criticism.