Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I: Libertine Traces
6. 1 “Triompher par la force”: Sexual Violence and Its Representation in Casanova’s History of My Life 17
7. 2 The Writer of Dux: Casanova’s Dialogue with His Ladies from Autobiography to Correspondence 35
8. 3 Casanova and the Undifferentiated Body 54
9. Part II: Emerging Sociabilities
10. 4 Negotiating Sociabilities in Casanova’s History of My Life 71
11. 5 Casanova, Mercury, Mercurio 91
12. 6 Casanova, the Love of Paris 105
13. 7 Paris in Three Movements 120
14. Part III: Representational Shifts and Legacies
15. 8 Rewriting, Revolution, Melancholy: Two Versions of the First Stay in Paris 129
16. 9 Casanova, from Man to Myth 141
17. 10 Fellini’s Casanova: The Story of a Man Who Was Never Born 150
18. Contributors 161
19. Index 165