PETER CRYLE is author of
Geometry in the Boudoir (1996),
The Telling of the Act (2002), and
La Crise du plaisir, 1740-1830 (2003). He also co-edited
Libertine Enlightenment with Lisa O'Connell (2004) and
Sexuality at the Fin de Siècle (2008) with Christopher Forth.
ALISON MOORE is a Scholar of Modern European Intellectual History. She teaches and researches in International Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia.She is the author of
Sexual Myths of Modernity; Sadism, Masochism and Historical Teleology (2011).