...Jeremy W. Webster Copyright © 2005 Regents of the University of Colorado 2005 English Language Notes Volume XLII N um ber 4 »June 2005 ROCHESTER S EASY KING: REREADING THE (SEXUAL) POLITICS OF THE SCEPTER LAMPOON Whenever historians and literary critics discuss or even allude to libertinism...

... resemble each other in this respect, Musset takes care to distin­ guish them as roués of a different feather. Hassan straddles the two types of libertine distinguished earlier in the poem, the first exemplified by Clarissa Harlowe s seducer and the second by da Ponte s hero (as the poet has redacted him...

.... September 2004 91 Mudge, Bradford K. When Flesh Becomes Word: A n Anthology of Early EighteenthCentury Libertine Literature. Oxford: O xford UP, 2004. Pp. xxxiii + 331. pb. $24.95. 0-19-516188-2. O Gorman, Francis. Blackwell A nnotated Anthologies: Victorian Poetry: An Annotated Anthology. M alden...

...Wisam Mansour Copyright © 2005 Regents of the University of Colorado 2005 Ju n e 2005 19 24 Sarah W inde, Libertinism and Sexual Politics, Spirit of Wit: Reconsider­ ations ofRochester, ed. Jerem y Treglown (Ham den, CT: Archon, 1982) 133. 25 See, for example, H arold Weber, D rudging...

... to pucier ( m arriage b ed a move which sustains the w om an s search for personal definition of h er body. In choos­ ing to control the m eaning of her body, the respondent has to follow through with the game. A lthough it seems as though the libertine persona only reacts to the resp o n d en t s...

... ends, disguising him self as a virtuous arbiter of the law so that he cannot be found out in his libertine abuse of authority. Note that Angelo intends to have Isabel s b ro th er killed despite h e r ap p aren t sac­ rifice, in order to avoid arousing suspicion by exercising mercy. Angelo has kept...

... as a homogenizing term fo r specific identities. Aaron Betsky's use of "queer space" to describe architectural and interior design associated w ith gay male sensibility 15 8 E n g l i s h L a n g u a g e N o t e s 4 5 . 2 F a l l / W i n t e r 2 0 0 7 and libertine or SM practice is ju st one example o f...

... for a moment of Clélia. 'How different I am,' he said to himself, 'from the frivolous libertine who entered this prison nine months ago'" (Stendhal, The Charterhouse o f Parma, trans. Richard Howard [NewYork: Modern Library, 1999], 376).The genre of adventure is one of the most thoroughly self-conscious...