Contents List of Figures vii Acknowledgements viii Notes on the Contributors ix Sex, Liberty and Licence in the Eighteenth Century 1 Part I Disquieting Theories 1 Taking Liberties: Sterne, Wilkes and Warburton 15 Simon During 2 Casanova: Inscriptions of Forgetting 34 Chantal Thomas 3 Codified Indulgence: The Niceties of Libertine Ethics 48 in Casanova and His Contemporaries Peter Cryle 4 Kant, Sade and the Libertine Enlightenment 61 Alan Corkhill 5 Philosophical Liberty, Sexual Licence: The Ambiguity 75 of Voltaire’s Libertinage Serge Rivière Part II Improper Women 6 The Female Rake: Gender, Libertinism and Enlightenment 93 Kathleen Wilson 7 The Making of a Libertine Queen: Jeanne de La Motte 112 and Marie-Antoinette Iain McCalman 8 Secrecy and Enlightenment: Delarivier Manley’s New Atalantis 145 Nicola Parsons 9 Authorship and Libertine Celebrity: Harriette Wilson’s 161 Regency Memoirs Lisa O’Connell v