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The Libertine's Nemesis: The Prude in Clarissa and the Roman Libertin

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The Libertine's Nemesis: The Prude in Clarissa and the Roman Libertin - Fowler, James
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This book discusses Fowler's thesis on the establishment of a symbiotic relationship between the libertine and the prude in a number of key eighteenth-century texts. He stresses that prude and libertine need each other to define themselves, a symbiosis most graphically enacted in the Sadean orgy.

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The Libertine's Nemesis: The Prude in Clarissa and the Roman Libertin 2020, Routledge, London

ISBN-13: 9780367603380

Paperback

The Libertine's Nemesis: The Prude in Clarissa and the Roman Libertin 2011, Legenda, Leeds

ISBN-13: 9781907625015

Hardcover