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Libertinage in Russian culture and literature : a bio-history of sexualities at the threshold of modernity
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ISBN: 1283270714 9786613270719 9004211209 9789004211209 9781283270717 9789004211193 9004211195 Year: 2011 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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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.

Il labirinto delle ombre : l'immagine di don giovanni nella letteratura britannica
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ISBN: 882210286X Year: 1986 Publisher: Firenze : La Nuova Italia,


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Rakes, highwaymen, and pirates
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ISBN: 0801895308 9780801895302 9780801890888 0801890888 142141385X Year: 2009 Publisher: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press

Sade : the libertine novels
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ISBN: 1849645272 0585425841 9780585425849 9781849645270 0745315046 9780745315041 0745315984 9780745315980 Year: 2001 Publisher: London Pluto


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Dangerous women, libertine epicures, and the rise of sensibility, 1670-1730
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ISBN: 9781409418115 9781409418122 140941812X 1317154835 1283047969 9786613047960 9781315575834 9781317154822 9781317154839 9781138270800 1409418111 1315575833 1317154843 1138270806 Year: 2011 Publisher: Farnham, Surrey Burlington, VT Ashgate

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In the first full-length study of the figure of the female libertine in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century literature, Laura Linker examines plays and novels by John Dryden, Aphra Behn, Catharine Trotter, Delariviere Manley, and Daniel Defoe. Her study places the female libertine within her cultural, philosophical, and literary contexts and suggests new ways of considering women's participation and the early novel.


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Sade : l'invention du corps libertin
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ISBN: 2130355765 9782130355762 Year: 1978 Publisher: Paris : Presses Universitaires de France,

Sexual freedom in restoration literature
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ISBN: 0521464978 0521069165 0511518854 0511834705 Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The pursuit of sexual freedom and its political, philosophical and practical implications are the themes of this wide-ranging study of restoration literature, which confronts ideological issues of sexual politics equally relevant to modern debate. The author examines the writers of the later seventeenth century in their historical context, and focuses particularly on what happens when women desire sexual freedom as well as men. In a study of the writings, notorious for their sexual candour, of the Earl of Rochester, God-haunted atheist and licensed rebel of the Restoration court, and Aphra Behn, the most prominent and most controversial woman writer of the period, the author explores some of the tensions inherent in the ideology of individual liberty as applied to the conduct of sexual relations inside and outside marriage. The works by Rochester, Aphra Behn and their contemporaries gain much of their power from the ambivalence with which they treat the competing claims of freedom and authority, rebelliousness and security, the assertion of power and the need to love.

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