Adam Horsley

Libertines and the Law

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This study sheds new light on the trials of 'libertine' authors (a term for religious, sexual, social or moral subversion), by considering them primarily as legal defendants.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 152mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780197267004
• ISBN-10: 0197267009
• Artikelnr.: 61646936

Autorenporträt

Adam Horsley is currently a Lecturer in French at the University of Exeter. He studied for his PhD at the University of Nottingham, one year of which was spent in Paris whilst teaching at the Université de Paris VII Denis Diderot. He subsequently taught at Nottingham for three years as an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow. He is the author of a number of studies on seventeenth-century French libertine literature, criminal history and material bibliography.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of abbreviations
Introduction
I: LIBERTINES AND THE LAW
1: Libertines
2: The Law
II: LIBERTINE AUTHOR TRIALS
3: Hiding in Plain Sight: The Trial of Giulio Cesare Vanini (1618-19)
4: Authorial and Confessional Identity: The Trial of Jean Fontanier (1621)
5: A Last Stand: The Trial of Théophile de Viau (1623-25)
Conclusion
Glossary of legal terms
Bibliography
Index