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Sade's Sensibilities examines a new and different Sade: one engaged with broader currents of Enlightenment feeling. In this volume, we recapture a historical Sade alongside a contemporary portrait of Sade as the consummate radical of the eighteenth century.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Kate Parker
Part I: Feeling, Thinking, Reading Sade
Chapter 1: Coitus Interruptus: Sadean Intimacy and the End(s) of Narrrative
Christopher Nagle and Courtney Wennerstrom
Chapter 2: The Reader in the Boudoir
Eliane Moraes
Chapter 3: Obscenity off the Scene: Sade's La Philosophie dans le boudoir
John Phillips
Chapter 4: Sade, Philosophy and Fiction
Norbert Sclippa
Part II: In Pursuit of D.A.F. de Sade
Chapter 5: "A little short fat man, thirty-five years of age, inconceivably vigorous, and hairy as a bear": The Figure of the Philosopher in Sade
Caroline Warman
Chapter 6: Sade at the End of the World
Natania Meeker
Chapter 7: Sade and the Medical Sciences: Pathophysiology of the Novel and the Rhetoric of Contagion
Mladen Kozul
Chapter 8: The Marquis, the Monster and the Scientist: Sade, Sexology and Criticism
Will McMorran
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
About the author
Kate Parker is assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.
Norbert Sclippa is professor of French at the College of Charleston.
