Libertine Strategies: Freedom and the Novel in Seventeenth-Century France

Abstract

this study in a context of wider critical interest.I originally de cided against writing such a conclusion because I felt the liber tines should stand on their own.I was concerned that their works might be overshadowed by those of their more illustrious eighteenth-century "heirs."N o w I also kno w that I did not write this conclusion because I sensed that a chapter would not be suffi cient to trace the parallels I wished to explore.I a m currently about to embark on what will be in some sense a sequel to this project, a book on the defensive strategies of Rousseau, Laclos, and Sade.Libertine Strategies was written during the tenure of a fellow ship sponsored by the