Fashioning Adultery: Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660-1740 (Past and Present Publications) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Fashioning Adultery: Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660-1740 (Past and Present Publications) Book

This book provides the first major survey of representations of adultery in later seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Bringing together a wide variety of literary and legal sources - including sermons, pamphlets, plays, diaries, periodicals, trial reports and the records of marital litigation--it charts and explains shifts in understandings about marital infidelity, examining in particular challenges to religious perceptions of sexual sin and the development of a more rational understanding of the causes and consequences of adultery.Read More

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    A major survey of representations of adultery in later seventeenth and early eighteenth-century England brings together a wide variety of literary and legal sources, it charts and explains shifts in the understanding of marital infidelity. It examines, in particular, challenges to religious perceptions of sexual sin and the development of a more rational understanding of the causes and consequences of adultery.

  • 0521042704
  • 9780521042703
  • David M. Turner
  • 24 September 2007
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 252
  • 1
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