Casanova in the Enlightenment - From the Margins to the Centre

This book interrogates the enduring and controversial legend of Casanova, from a seducer of women to a man of science and key participant in the Enlightenment.

List of contents

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

About the author

Edited by Malina Stefanovska

Summary

This book interrogates the enduring and controversial legend of Casanova, from a seducer of women to a man of science and key participant in the Enlightenment.

Product details

• Authors: Malina Stefanovska
• Assisted by: Malina Stefanovska (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781487506643
• ISBN: 978-1-4875-0664-3
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series; UCLA Clark Memorial Library
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies