Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court examines the performative nature of Restoration libertinism through reports of libertine activities and texts of libertine plays within the context of the fraternization between George Villiers, ...
List of Illustrations -- Ackowledgements -- Introduction: Nuancing the Libertine -- 1.
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The good-natured Georgian libertinism that emerged maintained the subversive social, religious, sexual, and philosophical tenets of the old libertinism, but misogynist brutality was replaced by freedom and autonomy for the individual, ...
This book explores those implications, and in particular the links between sexual freedom and liberty in a variety of European and British contexts.