Casanova in the Enlightenment
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0664-3 (ISBN)
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.
Malina Stefanovska is a Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Malina Stefanovska
Part I: Libertine Traces
1. "Triompher par la force": Sexual Violence and Its Representation in Casanova’s History of My Life
Raphaëlle Brin
2. The Writer of Dux: Casanova’s Dialogue with His Ladies from Autobiography to Correspondence
Bruno Capaci
3. Casanova and the Undifferentiated Body
Mladen Kozul
Part II: Emerging Sociabilities
4. Negotiating Sociabilities in Casanova’s History of My Life
Clorinda Donato
5. Casanova, Mercury, Mercurio
Malina Stefanovska
6. Casanova, the Love of Paris
Pierre Saint-Amand
7. Paris in Three Movements
Chantal Thomas
Part III: Representational Shifts and Legacies
8. Rewriting, Revolution, Melancholy: Two Versions of the First Stay in Paris
Jean-Christophe Igalens
9. Casanova: From Man to Myth
Michel Delon
10. Fellini’s Casanova: The Story of a Man Who Was Never Born
Christopher B. White
Contributors
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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Reihe/Serie | UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series |
Verlagsort | Toronto |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 231 mm |
Gewicht | 400 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4875-0664-3 / 1487506643 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-0664-3 / 9781487506643 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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