Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty and Licence in the Eighteenth Century is a 2003 book edited by Peter Cryle and Lisa O'Connell. Overview Libertine Enlightenment is a multi-author collection of essays covering several aspects of libertine thought as it developed during the Enlightenment, including sexual liberty, personal liberty, and political liberty. The book contains the following sections and essays: Part I. Disquieting Theories 1. "Taking Liberties: Sterne, Wilkes and Warburton" by Simon During 2. "Casanova: Inscriptions of Forgetting" by Chantal Thomas 3. "Codified Indulgence: The Niceties of Libertine Ethics in Casanova and His Contemporaries" by Peter Cryle 4. "Kant, Sade and the Libertine Enlightenment" by Alan Corkhill 5. "Philosophical Liberty, Sexual Licence: The Ambiguity of Voltaire's Libertinage" by Serge Rivière Part II. Improper Women 6. "The Female Rake: Gender, Libertinism and Enlightenment" by Kathleen Wilson 7. "The Making of a Libertine Queen: Jeanne de La Motte and Marie-Antoinette" by Iain McCalman 8. "Secrecy and Enlightenment: Delarivier Manley's New Atlantis" by Nicola Parsons 9. "Authorship and Libertine Celebrity: Harriette Wilson's Regency Memoirs" by Lisa O'Connell Part III. Spurious Practices 10. "Libertines and Radicals in the 1790s: The Strange Case of Charles Pigott I" by Jonathan Mee 11. "James Graham as Spiritual Libertine" by Peter Otto 12. "The Mysteries of Imposture: Count Cagliostro's Literary Legacy in German Romanticism" by Christa Knellwolf 13. "Children of the Midnight Mass" by Patrick Wald Lasowski Reception James Grantham Turner, reviewing the book for the Journal of the History of Sexuality, described Libertine Enlightenment as "a star-studded collection in the sense that it provides small but intense points of light, case studies rather than large definitions or broad syntheses." Turner went on to say, "[t]he main focus of many essays here is not sexuality but sexualization—a kind of automatic assumption that any free-thinker or skeptic must be wildly experimental in sexual matters." Turner concluded: "these essays bring Enlightenment to life as a complicated phenomenon, contradictory, even slovenly, but still vital. I find this timely." Michael McKeon, writing in Studies in English Literature praised the book for its eclectic approach: "Libertine Enlightenment ... mixes methods of criticism, moving back and forth between theoretical synthesis, textual analysis, and biographical story-telling, the latter two predominating. What unites these styles of procedure is a fairly common thickness of circumstantial detail, briefly immersing the reader in a world and a demimonde that seem only rather more strange than they do familiar McKeon went