Casanova in the Enlightenment : : From the Margins to the Centre / / ed. by Malina Stefanovska.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ACUP Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Brin, Raphaëlle,; Capaci, Bruno,; Delon, Michel,; Donato, Clorinda,; Igalens, Jean-Christophe,; Kozul, Mladen,; Saint-Amand, Pierre,; Stefanovska, Malina,; Thomas, Chantal,; White, Christopher B.,
• HerausgeberIn: Stefanovska, Malina,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (186 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781487534578; 9783111272535; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754124; 9783110753899; 9783110690453; 9783110739220
• DOI: 10.3138/9781487534578
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Malina Stefanovska.

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.