Download or read book The Libertine s Friend written by Giovanni Vitiello and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delving into three hundred years of Chinese literature, from the mid-sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth, The Libertine’s Friend uncovers the complex and fascinating history of male homosexual and homosocial relations in the late imperial era. Drawing particularly on overlooked works of pornographic fiction, Giovanni Vitiello offers a frank exploration of the importance of same-sex love and eroticism to the evolution of masculinity in China. Vitiello’s story unfolds chronologically, beginning with the earliest sources on homoeroticism in pre-imperial China and concluding with a look at developments in the twentieth century. Along the way, he identifies a number of recurring characters—for example, the libertine scholar, the chivalric hero, and the lustful monk—and sheds light on a set of key issues, including the social and legal boundaries that regulated sex between men, the rise of male prostitution, and the aesthetics of male beauty. Drawing on this trove of material, Vitiello presents a historical outline of changing notions of male homosexuality in China, revealing the integral part that same-sex desire has played in its culture.

Download or read book Libertine Enlightenment written by L. O'Connell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-11-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex in the Eighteenth-century was not simply a pleasure; it had profound philosophical and political implications. This book explores those implications, and in particular the links between sexual freedom and liberty in a variety of European and British contexts. Discussing prostitutes and politicians, philosophers and charlatans, confidence tricksters and novelists, Libertine Enlightenment presents a fascinating overview of the sexual dimension of enlightened modernity.

Download or read book The Polemics of Libertine Conversion in Pascal s Pens es written by John F. Boitano and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Mock Marriage Or The Libertine s Victim written by H. M. Rulison and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Friends Library Comprising Journals Doctrinal Treatises and Other Writings of Members of the Religious Society of Friends written by William Evans and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Friend of Caesar written by William Stearns Davis and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Friend of Caesar is a story about the rise and fall of the Roman Empire and those who came to rule it. Excerpt: "It was the Roman month of September, seven hundred and four years after Romulus—so tradition ran—founded the little village by the Tiber which was to become "Mother of Nations," "Centre of the World," "Imperial Rome." To state the time according to modern standards it was July, fifty years before the beginning of the Christian Era."

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Download or read book Jack Holmes and His Friend written by Edmund White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many straight men and gay men are best friends, but if the phenomenon is an urban commonplace it has never been treated before as the focus of a major novel. Jack Holmes is in love, but the man he loves never shares his bed. The other men Jack sleeps with never last long and he dallies with several women. He sees a shrink and practices extreme discretion about his gay adventures since the book begins in the 1960s, before gay liberation, and ends after the advent of AIDS in the 1980s. Jack's friend, Will Wright, comes from old stock, has aspirations to be a writer, and like Jack works on the Northern Review, a staid cultural quarterly. Will is shy and lonely-and Jack introduces him to the beautiful, brittle young woman he will marry. Over the years Will discovers his sensuality and almost destroys his marriage in doing so. Towards the end of the 1970s Jack's and Will's lives merge as they both become accomplished libertines. Jack Holmes and his Friend deploys Edmund White's wonderful perceptions of American society to dazzling effect, as character after character is delicately and colourfully rendered and one social milieu after another glows in the reader's mind. He is a connoisseur of the nuances of personality and mood, and here unveils his very human cast in all their radical individuality. New York itself is a principle character with its old society and its bohemians rich and poor, with its sleek European immigrants and its rough-and-tumble transplanted Midwesterners. With narrative daring and a gifted sense of the rueful submerged drama of life, the novel is a beautifully sculpted exploration of sexuality and sensibility.

Download or read book The British Friend written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Performing Libertinism in Charles II s Court written by J. Webster and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-08-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court examines the performative nature of Restoration libertinism through reports of libertine activities and texts of libertine plays within the context of the fraternization between George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Sir Charles Sedley, Sir George Etherege, and William Wycherley. Webster argues that libertines, both real and imagined, performed traditionally secretive acts, including excessive drinking, sex, sedition, and sacrilege, in the public sphere. This eruption of the private into the public challenged a Stuart ideology that distinguished between the nation's public life and the king's and his subjects' private consciences.

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?

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Download or read book Exploring Written Artefacts written by Jörg B. Quenzer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series Studies in Manuscript Cultures (SMC) publishes monographs and collective volumes contributing to the study of written artefacts. This field of study embraces disciplines such as art history, codicology, epigraphy, history, material analysis, palaeography and philology. SMC encourages comparative approaches, without regional, linguistic, temporal or other limitations on the objects studied; it contributes to a larger historical and systematic survey of the role of written artefacts in ancient and modern cultures, and in so doing provides a new foundation for ongoing discussions in cultural studies.

Download or read book Friends Review written by Enoch Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A religious, literary and miscellaneous journal.