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

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

Tiffany Potter

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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 sens...

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