Honest Sins: Georgian Libertinism and the Plays and Novels of Henry Fielding

by Tiffany Potter

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773518037
• ISBN13: 9780773518032
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 216 Pages