Much has been written about discourses concerning male sexual behaviour in the eighteenth century; given the nature of the surviving sources, it is harder to research actual sexual behaviour. Sir Charles Hanbury Williams (1708–1759) was a celebrated poet, wit and diplomat in his own lifetime but is now largely forgotten. The copious surviving manuscripts of his correspondence and verses provide rich and explicit material for an examination of mid-eighteenth-century libertinism from two perspectives – that of its ribald practitioners and that of an ex-libertine father and mentor – within the context of scholarly debates on eighteenth-century politeness and masculinities.

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“在我青年时代最伟大的荒野中”：查尔斯·汉伯里·威廉姆斯爵士和十八世纪中叶的自由主义

关于18世纪有关男性性行为的论述已有许多文献报道。考虑到生存来源的性质，很难研究实际的性行为。查尔斯·汉伯里·威廉姆斯爵士（1708–1759年）是他一生中著名的诗人，机智和外交官，但如今已被人们遗忘。他的书信和经文的大量幸存手稿为学术辩论中的两种观点提供了丰富而明确的材料，用于从两个角度考察18世纪中叶的自由主义者–罗伯特实践者的观点以及前自由主义者的父亲和指导者的观点。关于18世纪的礼貌和男子气概。