In the author's words: "Rather than examining every articulation of this figure [female libertine]...I have chosen representative types across a diverse group of texts...." These include:
Dryden's Marriage A-la Mode (1671), Behn's The Luckey Chance, or an Alderman's Bargain (1686), and The History of the Nun (1789), Trotter's Olinda's Adventures (1693) and Love at a Loss, or the
Most Votes Carries It (1700), Manley's The Adventures of Rivella (1714), and Defoe's Roxanna (1724). Linker is affiliated with the English department at North Carolina State U., and she also
teaches course on libertinism at Duke U. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
