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Libertines in literature

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"An examination of how the romantic narrative from Pride and Prejudice was born out of Gothic horror, how it influenced pop culture since its publishing, and how it has reinforced harmful cultural concepts of real-life romance"--

Libertines in literature. --- Austen, Jane, --- Austen, Jane, --- Darcy, Fitzwilliam --- Characters.

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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