Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility, 1670-1730
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Charles II's Court
Charles II's Mistress
Charles II’s Court
Charles II’s Mistress
Court Mistresses
Creech's Translation
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Creech’s Translation
Dryden's Interest
Dryden's Marriage
Dryden’s Marriage
early modern sexuality
Edward III
eighteenth-century gender studies
Epicurean philosophy literature
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Female Libertines
female libertinism in British literature
George Etherege
Human Suffering
Humane Libertine
Kinetic Pleasure
Lady Bellaston
Lady Sensibility
Libertine Heroine
literary sensibility theory
Luckey Chance
Mary Pix
Pepys Records
Protestant Whore
satirical character analysis
Satura Lanx
Sir Cautious
Susanna Centlivre
translation
Vice Versa
William III
women writers Britain
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781409418115
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 14 Apr 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In the first full-length study of the figure of the female libertine in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century literature, Laura Linker examines heroines appearing in literature by John Dryden, Aphra Behn, Catharine Trotter, Delariviere Manley, and Daniel Defoe. Linker argues that this figure, partially inspired by Epicurean ideas found in Lucretius's De rerum natura, interrogates gender roles and assumptions and emerges as a source of considerable tension during the late Stuart and early Georgian periods. Witty and rebellious, the female libertine becomes a frequent satiric target because of her transgressive sexuality. As a result of negative portrayals of lady libertines, women writers begin to associate their libertine heroines with the pathos figures they read in French texts of sensibilité. Beginning with a discussion of Charles II's mistresses, Linker shows that these women continue to serve as models for the female libertine in literature long after their "reigns" at court ended. Her study places the female libertine within her cultural, philosophical, and literary contexts and suggests new ways of considering women's participation and the early novel, which prominently features female libertines as heroines of sensibility.
Laura Linker is a lecturer in the Department of English at North Carolina State University, USA, and teaches courses on libertinism at Duke University.
