Honest sins
Georgian libertinism and the plays and novels of Henry Fielding
by Tiffany Potter
Tiffany Potter is the first author to make clear how English libertinism changed during the eighteenth century as the violent, hypersexualized Hobbesian libertine, typified by the Earl of Rochester, was tempered by England's cultures of sentiment and sensibility.
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, whether male or female.
Libertinism encompasses issues of gender, sexuality, and literary and cultural history and thus provides a useful cultural context for a discussion of a number of critical approaches to Fielding's work, including feminism, queer theory, new historicism, and cultural studies.
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Criticism and interpretation, History, Libertinism, Libertinism in literature, Social life and customs, Fielding, henry, 1707-1754, English fiction, history and criticism, 18th century, Sex in literature, English drama, history and criticism, 18th century, English literature, History and criticismPeople
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Honest sins: Georgian libertinism and the plays and novels of Henry Fielding
1999, McGill-Queen's University Press
in English
0773518037 9780773518032
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-200) and index.
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