Honest sins : Georgian libertinism and the plays and novels of Henry Fielding / Tiffany Potter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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."--Jacket.

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Contents -- Preface -- 1 Toward a Re-vision of Georgian Libertinism -- 2 Early Georgian Libertines: Fielding's Drama -- 3 Georgian Libertinism and the Reclamation of Virtue: Shamela and Joseph Andrews -- 4 Threads in the Carpet: Jonathan Wild -- 5 The Road to Archetypal Georgian Libertinism: Tom Jones -- 6 The Mature Faces of Libertinism: Amelia -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W

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