Libertine enlightenment : sex, liberty, and licence in the eighteenth century / edited by Peter Cryle and Lisa O'Connell.

Houndmills ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

xi, 256 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Taking liberties: Sterne, Wilkes and Warburton / Simon During -- Casanova: inscriptions of forgetting / Chantal Thomas -- Codified indulgence: the niceties of libertine ethics in Casanova and his contemporaries / Peter Cryle -- Kant, Sade and the libertine Enlightenment / Alan Corkhill -- Philosophical liberty, sexual licence: the ambiguity of Voltaire's libertinage / Serge Rivière -- The female rake: gender, libertinism and enlightenment / Kathleen Wilson -- The making of a libertine queen: Jeanne de La Motte and Marie-Antoinette / Iain McCalman -- Secrecy and enlightenment: Delarivier Manley's New Atalantis / Nicola Parsons -- Authorship and libertine celebrity: Harriette Wilson's regency memoirs / Lisa O'Connell -- Libertines and radicals in the 1790s: the strange case of Charles Pigott I / Jonathan Mee -- James Graham as spiritual libertine / Peter Otto -- The mysteries of imposture: Count Cagliostro's literary legacy in German Romanticism / Christa Knellwolf -- Children of the midnight mass / Patrick Wald Lasowski.

Includes bibliographical references and index.