Libertine Enlightenment

ALAN 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, University of Melbourne, AustraliaNICOLA PARSONS Department of English with Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne, AustraliaMARC SERGE RIVIÈRE Professor of French, University of Limerick, IrelandCHANTAL THOMAS Directrice de Recherche, Conseil National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lyons, FrancePATRICK WALD LASOWSKI Université de Paris 8 (Vincennes-Saint-Denis)KATHLEEN WILSON Professor of History, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA

• 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.Rivière 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 Index