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dc.contributor.authorGanofsky, Marine
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-07T00:33:18Z
dc.date.available2016-11-07T00:33:18Z
dc.date.issued2014-12
dc.identifier.citationGanofsky , M 2014 , ' Libertine clairs-obscurs : the enticement of the shadows ' , Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies , vol. 37 , no. 4 , pp. 499-515 . https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12203en
dc.identifier.issn1754-0194
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 92910134
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: bd1a95d4-7ae5-4ece-ab2d-e4b330d0a84d
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84940654411
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-2417-6118/work/60630925
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000345018600006
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/9771
dc.description.abstractThis article draws an analogy between the early modern definitions of clair-obscur and eighteenth-century French libertine literature. In libertine prose the concept of clair-obscur is used not only to describe voluptuous settings: it also helps authors define libertine writing as always fully conscious of the balance it must reach, for the sake of erotic and aesthetic gratification, between being too clear and therefore crude and being too obscure and therefore unintelligible. However, whereas tradition had conceived shadows as peripheral within representation, libertines conceptualise darkness as an endless source of imaginative liberty and fantasies, making shadows crucial to their pleasure.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studiesen
dc.rights© 2014 British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Ganofsky, M. (2014), Libertine Clairs-Obscurs: The Enticement of the Shadows. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 37: 499–515, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12203. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving'en
dc.subjectLibertinism/libertinageen
dc.subjectErotic literatureen
dc.subjectNighten
dc.subjectClair-obscuren
dc.subjectNarrative desireen
dc.subjectSeductionen
dc.subjectBarthesen
dc.subjectCrebillonen
dc.subjectPQ Romance literaturesen
dc.subjectPN0441 Literary Historyen
dc.subject.lccPQen
dc.subject.lccPN0441en
dc.titleLibertine clairs-obscurs : the enticement of the shadowsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Frenchen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12203
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2016-11-06


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