| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 176 pages) |
| Series |
The UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 30 |
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UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 30.
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| Contents |
"Triompher par la force" : sexual violence and its representation in Casanova's History of My Life / Raphaëlle Brin -- The writer of Dux : Casanova's dialogue with his ladies from Autobiography to Correspondence / Bruno Capaci -- Casanova and the undifferentiated body / Mladen Kozul -- Negotiating sociabilities in Casanova's History of My Life / Clorinda Donato -- Casanova, Mercury, Mercurio / Malina Stefanovska -- Casanova, the love of Paris / Pierre Saint-Amand -- Paris in three movements / Chantal Thomas -- Rewriting, revolution, melancholy : two versions of the first stay in Paris / Jean-Christophe Igalens -- Casanova, from man to myth / Michel Delon -- Fellini's Casanova : the story of a man who was never born / Christopher B. White |
| Summary |
"Illuminating the legend that Giacomo Casanova singlehandedly created in his famous--and at times infamous--autobiography, The History of My Life, this book provides a timely reassessment of Casanova's role and importance as an author of the European Enlightenment. From the margins of libertine authorship where he has been traditionally relegated, the various essays in this collection reposition Casanova at the heart of Enlightenment debates on medicine, sociability, gender, and writing. Based on new scholarship, this reappraisal of a key Enlightenment figure explores the period's fascination with ethnography, its scientific societies, and its understanding of gender, medicine, and women. Casanova is here finally granted his rightful place in cultural and literary history, a place which explains his enduring yet controversial reputation as a figure of seduction and adventure. "-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Malina Stefanovska is a Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles |
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In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Casanova, Giacomo, 1725-1798. Mémoires.
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| SUBJECT |
Mémoires (Casanova, Giacomo) fast |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century .
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stefanovska, Malina, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781487534585 |
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1487534582 |
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9781487534578 |
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1487534574 |
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