Casanova in the Enlightenment : : From the Margins to the Centre /

Casanova in the Enlightenment : : From the Margins to the Centre / / 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 aut...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (186 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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