Casanova in the Enlightenment : From the Margins to the Centre /
Casanova in the Enlightenment : From the Margins to the Centre /
ed. by Malina Stefanovska.
- 1 online resource (186 p.)
- UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Libertine Traces -- 1 “Triompher par la force”: Sexual Violence and Its Representation in Casanova’s History of My Life -- 2 The Writer of Dux: Casanova’s Dialogue with His Ladies from Autobiography to Correspondence -- 3 Casanova and the Undifferentiated Body -- Part II: Emerging Sociabilities -- 4 Negotiating Sociabilities in Casanova’s History of My Life -- 5 Casanova, Mercury, Mercurio -- 6 Casanova, the Love of Paris -- 7 Paris in Three Movements -- Part III: Representational Shifts and Legacies -- 8 Rewriting, Revolution, Melancholy: Two Versions of the First Stay in Paris -- 9 Casanova, from Man to Myth -- 10 Fellini’s Casanova: The Story of a Man Who Was Never Born -- Contributors -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Illuminating the legend that Giacomo Casanova singlehandedly created in his famous – and at times infamous – autobiography, The History of My Life, this book provides a timely reassessment of Casanova’s role and importance as an author of the European Enlightenment. From the margins of libertine authorship where he has been traditionally relegated, the various essays in this collection reposition Casanova at the heart of Enlightenment debates on medicine, sociability, gender, and writing. Based on new scholarship, this reappraisal of a key Enlightenment figure explores the period’s fascination with ethnography, its scientific societies, and its understanding of gender, medicine, and women. Casanova is here finally granted his rightful place in cultural and literary history, a place which explains his enduring yet controversial reputation as a figure of seduction and adventure.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781487534578
10.3138/9781487534578 doi
Enlightenment.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century .
Age of Enlightenment. Fellini. Giacomo Casanova. History of My Life. Medecine. autobiography. eighteenth-century Europe. epistolary writing. history of Paris. libertine. love. seduction. sociability.
D285.8.C4 / C37 2020eb
940.2/53092
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Libertine Traces -- 1 “Triompher par la force”: Sexual Violence and Its Representation in Casanova’s History of My Life -- 2 The Writer of Dux: Casanova’s Dialogue with His Ladies from Autobiography to Correspondence -- 3 Casanova and the Undifferentiated Body -- Part II: Emerging Sociabilities -- 4 Negotiating Sociabilities in Casanova’s History of My Life -- 5 Casanova, Mercury, Mercurio -- 6 Casanova, the Love of Paris -- 7 Paris in Three Movements -- Part III: Representational Shifts and Legacies -- 8 Rewriting, Revolution, Melancholy: Two Versions of the First Stay in Paris -- 9 Casanova, from Man to Myth -- 10 Fellini’s Casanova: The Story of a Man Who Was Never Born -- Contributors -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Illuminating the legend that Giacomo Casanova singlehandedly created in his famous – and at times infamous – autobiography, The History of My Life, this book provides a timely reassessment of Casanova’s role and importance as an author of the European Enlightenment. From the margins of libertine authorship where he has been traditionally relegated, the various essays in this collection reposition Casanova at the heart of Enlightenment debates on medicine, sociability, gender, and writing. Based on new scholarship, this reappraisal of a key Enlightenment figure explores the period’s fascination with ethnography, its scientific societies, and its understanding of gender, medicine, and women. Casanova is here finally granted his rightful place in cultural and literary history, a place which explains his enduring yet controversial reputation as a figure of seduction and adventure.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781487534578
10.3138/9781487534578 doi
Enlightenment.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century .
Age of Enlightenment. Fellini. Giacomo Casanova. History of My Life. Medecine. autobiography. eighteenth-century Europe. epistolary writing. history of Paris. libertine. love. seduction. sociability.
D285.8.C4 / C37 2020eb
940.2/53092