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Author : Raine Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942095354
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Undoing of a Libertine written by Raine Miller and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raine Miller
Publisher : Raine Miller Deutsche
ISBN 13 : 9781942095170
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Eyes Wide Open written by Raine Miller and published by Raine Miller Deutsche. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joan E. DeJean
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814203256
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Libertine Strategies written by Joan E. DeJean and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the development of the French novel
Author : Laura Linker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317154843
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility, 1670-1730 written by Laura Linker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : 井原西鶴
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811201872
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Life of an Amorous Woman written by 井原西鶴 and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1963 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ihara Saikaku "wrote of the lowest class in the Tokugawa world -- the townsmen who were rising in wealth and power but not in official status."--Back cover.
Author : Armando Maggi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226501361
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The Resurrection of the Body written by Armando Maggi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italian novelist, poet, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally killed in Rome in 1975, a macabre end to a career that often explored humanity’s capacity for violence and cruelty. Along with the mystery of his murderer’s identity, Pasolini left behind a controversial but acclaimed oeuvre as well as a final quartet of beguiling projects that signaled a radical change in his aesthetics and view of reality. The Resurrection of the Body is an original and compelling interpretation of these final works: the screenplay Saint Paul, the scenario for Porn-Theo-Colossal, the immense and unfinished novel Petrolio, and his notorious final film, Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom, a disturbing adaptation of the writings of the Marquis de Sade. Together these works, Armando Maggi contends, reveal Pasolini’s obsession with sodomy and its role within his apocalyptic view of Western society. One of the first studies to explore the ramifications of Pasolini’s homosexuality, The Resurrection of the Body also breaks new ground by putting his work into fruitful conversation with an array of other thinkers such as Freud, Strindberg, Swift, Henri Michaux, and Norman O. Brown.
Author : Jeremy Davies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135016747
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature written by Jeremy Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the University English Early Career Book Prize 2016 Shortlisted for the British Association for Romantic Studies First Book Prize 2015 When writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries explored the implications of organic and emotional sensitivity, the pain of the body gave rise to unsettling but irresistible questions. Urged on by some of their most deeply felt preoccupations – and in the case of figures like Coleridge and P. B. Shelley, by their own experiences of chronic pain – many writers found themselves drawn to the imaginative scrutiny of bodies in extremis. Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature reveals the significance of physical hurt for the poetry, philosophy, and medicine of the Romantic period. This study looks back to eighteenth-century medical controversies that made pain central to discussions about the nature of life, and forward to the birth of surgical anaesthesia in 1846. It examines why Jeremy Bentham wrote in defence of torture, and how pain sparked the imagination of thinkers from Adam Smith to the Marquis de Sade. Jeremy Davies brings to bear on Romantic studies the fascinating recent work in the medical humanities that offers a fresh understanding of bodily hurt, and shows how pain could prompt new ways of thinking about politics, ethics, and identity.
Author : Raine Miller
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781484079836
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (798 download)
Download or read book His Perfect Passion written by Raine Miller and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-04-20 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darius Rourke has long desired the beautiful and mysterious Marianne, seizing the opportunity to claim her when her family falls on hard times. Darius intuitively understands Marianne's need for direction and is willing to do anything to be the one to give it to her. What he doesn't know is that submission is security for Marianne, helping her to cope with a sin from her past. The wedding night confirms his virgin bride is the passionate woman Darius always dreamed she would be, but the more entangled they become, the harder it is for Darius to play the role of 'master,' for ultimately it will never give him that which he wants most of all—Marianne's love. A confrontation is due for Darius and Marianne who must both face the fears and painful secrets threatening to destroy their fragile love, their future together, and the perfect passion they both crave.
Author : Caroline Courtney
Publisher : Corgi
ISBN 13 : 9780552116053
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Guardian of the Heart written by Caroline Courtney and published by Corgi. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raine Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781942095071
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Heart and Arrow written by Raine Miller and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh Fenning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Undoing of the Friars of Ireland written by Hugh Fenning and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heidi Hutner
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813914435
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Rereading Aphra Behn written by Heidi Hutner and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aphra Behn was the first Englishwoman to earn her living from writing. This collection of critical essays explores the different genres in Behn's canon, including her plays, criticism, fiction and poetry, from a wide variety of feminist theoretical approaches.
Author : Philip Roth
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547344015
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)
Download or read book The Dying Animal written by Philip Roth and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2001-05-18 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Kepesh is white-haired and over sixty, an eminent TV culture critic and star lecturer at a New York college, when he meets Consuela Castillo, a decorous, well-mannered student of twenty-four, the daughter of wealthy Cuban exiles, who promptly puts his life into erotic disorder. Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, when he left his wife and child, Kepesh has experimented with living what he calls an "emancipated manhood," beyond the reach of family or a mate. Over the years he has refined that exuberant decade of protest and license into an orderly life in which he is both unimpeded in the world of eros and studiously devoted to his aesthetic pursuits. But the youth and beauty of Consuela, "a masterpiece of volupté" undo him completely, and a maddening sexual possessiveness transports him to the depths of deforming jealousy. The carefree erotic adventure evolves, over eight years, into a story of grim loss. What is astonishing is how much of America’s post-sixties sexual landscape is encompassed in THE DYING ANIMAL. Once again, with unmatched facility, Philip Roth entangles the fate of his characters with the social forces that shape our daily lives. And there is no character who can tell us more about the way we live with desire now than David Kepesh, whose previous incarnations as a sexual being were chronicled by Roth in THE BREAST and THE PROFESSOR OF DESIRE. A work of passionate immediacy as well as a striking exploration of attachment and freedom, THE DYING ANIMAL is intellectually bold, forcefully candid, wholly of our time, and utterly without precedent--a story of sexual discovery told about himself by a man of seventy, a story about the power of eros and the fact of death.
Author : Sebastian Faulks
Publisher : Seal Books
ISBN 13 : 0307373320
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Devil May Care written by Sebastian Faulks and published by Seal Books. This book was released on 2009-06-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bond is back with a license to thrill. Forty-three years ago, Ian Fleming wrote his last great 007 adventure. Now, in Devil May Care, the world's most iconic spy returns in a Cold War story spanning the world's exotic locations. By invitation of the Fleming estate to mark the centenary of his birth, acclaimed novelist Sebastian Faulks picks up where Fleming left off, writing a tour de force that will electrify every James Bond fan. A fitting tribute to the Bond tradition, Devil May Care stands on its own as a triumph of witty prose and plenty of double-0 action. "In his house in Jamaica, Ian Fleming used to write a thousand words in the morning, then go snorkeling, have a cocktail, lunch on the terrace, more diving, another thousand words in the late afternoon, then more martinis and glamorous women. In my house in London, I followed this routine exactly, apart from the cocktails, the lunch, and the snorkeling." —Sebastian Faulks
Author : Jane Feather
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416578838
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Snowy Night with a Stranger written by Jane Feather and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warm up on a winter's night with three passionate love stories from three shining New York Times bestselling authors! Jane Feather leads an unwitting Yuletide traveler down a twisting path.... Edward Vasey, Viscount Allenton, is journeying precariously through a snowstorm when his coach is overtaken by high-waymen! Robbed of his money, Ned takes refuge at Selby Hall, where a spirited beauty with a shocking secret may steal something more -- his heart. Sabrina Jeffries unlocks the heart of an embittered lord.... When a coach accident strands heiress Elinor Bancroft at the home of the notorious Black Baron, she discovers the Christmas Day heartache that darkened his soul years ago -- and her generous heart brings a festive air to his home and reawakens his spirit to love. Julia London sends a debutante into the wintry Scottish wilds.... Searching for her rakehell brother, an earl lying low in the wake of a scandalous affair, Fiona Haines is led by a rugged Highlander who obscures his scarred face. As they journey on, Fiona draws closer to her brave, enigmatic protector -- but will fury or passion ignite when he reveals his identity?
Author : Judith James
Publisher : HQN Books
ISBN 13 : 1426864116
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Libertine's Kiss written by Judith James and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abandoned by his cavalier father at a young age, William de Veres grew up knowing precious little happiness. But William has put the past firmly behind him and as a military hero and noted rake, he rises fast in the ranks of the hedonistic Restoration court. Though not before he is forced to seek shelter from a charming young Puritan woman… The civil wars have cost the once-high-spirited Elizabeth Walters her best friend and her father, leaving her unprotected and alone. She flees an unwanted marriage, seeking safe haven, but what she finds is something she never expected. When her kindness and her beauty bring her to the attention of William, and then the king, she will have a choice to make. After all, can a notorious libertine really be capable of love?
Author : Gary Krist
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0770437079
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Empire of Sin written by Gary Krist and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans’ thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city’s elite “better half” against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. This early-20th-century battle centers on one man: Tom Anderson, the undisputed czar of the city's Storyville vice district, who fights desperately to keep his empire intact as it faces onslaughts from all sides. Surrounding him are the stories of flamboyant prostitutes, crusading moral reformers, dissolute jazzmen, ruthless Mafiosi, venal politicians, and one extremely violent serial killer, all battling for primacy in a wild and wicked city unlike any other in the world.
