Night in French libertine fiction / Marine Ganofsky.
In the age of Enlightenment the concept of night evolved from being a time of dread to a time for pleasure. Between the start of the Régence (1715-1723) and the French Revolution the nocturnal and the erotic became intrinsically connected: shadows and darkness were reconfigured as the object of the...
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Oxford :
Voltaire Foundation,
[2018]
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| Series: | Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ;
2018:06. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Enlightening the night: a cultural and historical perspective on eighteenth-century nights
- 2. The nocturnal aesthetics of libertine fiction
- 3. Night as a hiding space
- 4. Nocturnal illusions: dreams of sylph-like lovers
- 5. Nocturnal revelations
- 6. Queens of the night: women and their nocturnal mystery in Les Liaisons dangereuses
- 7. The end of libertine nights: Les Cent Vingt Journées de Sodome
- Epilogue: beyond libertine nights – mornings and morrows.