Fashioning Adultery: Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660-1740
David M. Turner
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.
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Année:
2002
Editeur::
Cambridge University Press
Langue:
english
Pages:
253
ISBN 10:
0511041233
ISBN 13:
9780521792448
Collection:
Past and Present Publications
Fichier:
PDF, 1010 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2002