Libertine Enlightenment

LISA O'CONNELL is a lecturer in Eighteenth-Century British literature and culture at the University of Queensland. She has published articles on the links between marriage practices and the theatre, recreational tourism, the novel, and popular ethnography in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. - PETER CRYLE is Director of the Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Australia. Much of his recent work is on the history of erotic narrative in French. His publications include Geometry in the Boudoir, The Telling of the Act, and La Crise du Plaisir: 1740-1830.

• 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