Libertine novel
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The libertine novel was an 18th-century literary genre of which the roots lay in the European but mainly French libertine tradition. The genre effectively ended with the French Revolution. Themes of libertine novels were anti-clericalism, anti-establishment and eroticism.
Authors include Cyrano de Bergerac (L’Autre monde ou les états et empires de la Lune, 1657), [1]
Le Sopha, conte moral
, 1742),
Les bijoux indiscrets
, 1748),
L'Histoire de Juliette
, 1797–1801),
Choderlos de Laclos (Les Liaisons dangereuses
, 1782).
Other famous titles are Thérèse Philosophe (1748).
Precursors to the libertine writers were
Charles de Saint-Evremond (1610-1703), who were inspired by Epicurus and the publication of Petronius, and John Wilmot (Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery
, 1684).
.
Robert Darnton is a cultural historian who has covered this genre extensively.
English translations
In alphabetical order by author's last name:
- ISBN 9781734816631.
- Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre (2008). ISBN 9780199536481.
- ISBN 9781734816686.
- ISBN 9782070368914.
- Declose, Anne (2013). ASIN B00BRUQ7O0.
- ISBN 9781735615912.
- Diderot, Denis (1993). ISBN 9780941419833.
- Ewing, Frederick R. (1956). I, Libertine. Ballantine Books. ISBN 9781480410107.
- ISBN 9781734816679.
- ISBN 9781735477657.
- ISBN 9781734816662.
- ISBN 9781735615929.
- Sade, Marquis de (1994). ISBN 9780802130853.
- Sade, Marquis de (2013). ISBN 9780199572847.
Further reading
In alphabetical order by last name:
- DeJean, Joan (1981). Libertine Strategies: Freedom and the Novel in Seventeenth-Century France. Ohio State University Press. ISBN 9780814203255.
- Hölzle, Dominique (2012). Le Roman libertin au XVIIIe siècle: une esthétique de la séduction [The Libertine Novel of the 18th Century: An Esthetic of Seduction] (in French). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780729410458.
- Lachèvre, Frédéric (1921). Les Œuvres libertines de Cyrano de Bergerac, Parisien (1619–1655), précédées d'une notice biographique. Tome premier [The Libertine Works of Cyrano de Bergerac, Parisian (1619–1655), preceded by a biographical notice. Volume one] (in French). Paris: Librairie ancienne Honoré Champion. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
- Miletic, Tijana (2008). European Literary Immigration Into the French Language: Readings of Gary, Kristof, Kundera and Semprun. Brill-Rodopi. pp. 196–197. ISBN 9789042024007.
- Stam, Robert; Raengo, Alessandra, eds. (2007). A Companion to Literature and Film. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 347–349. ISBN 9781405177559.
References
- ^ Lachèvre, Frédéric (1921). Les Œuvres libertines de Cyrano de Bergerac, Parisien (1619–1655), précédées d'une notice biographique. Tome premier. Librarie Ancienne Honore Champion.