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Casanova in the Enlightenment
From the Margins to the Centre
Malina Stefanovska (Edited by)
9781487506643
Hardback, published 16 December 2020
186 pages
23.1 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm, 0.4 kg
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.
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Libertine Traces 1. "Triompher par la force": Sexual Violence and Its Representation in Casanova’s History of My Life 2. The Writer of Dux: Casanova’s Dialogue with His Ladies from Autobiography to Correspondence 3. Casanova and the Undifferentiated Body Part II: Emerging Sociabilities 4. Negotiating Sociabilities in Casanova’s History of My Life 5. Casanova, Mercury, Mercurio 6. Casanova, the Love of Paris 7. Paris in Three Movements Part III: Representational Shifts and Legacies 8. Rewriting, Revolution, Melancholy: Two Versions of the First Stay in Paris 9. Casanova: From Man to Myth 10. Fellini’s Casanova: The Story of a Man Who Was Never Born Contributors Index
Malina Stefanovska
Raphaëlle Brin
Bruno Capaci
Mladen Kozul
Clorinda Donato
Malina Stefanovska
Pierre Saint-Amand
Chantal Thomas
Jean-Christophe Igalens
Michel Delon
Christopher B. White