Fashioning adultery: gender, sex and civility in England, 1660-1740
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
España peninsular
"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, perio...
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- ISBN13 9780521792448
- ISBN10 0521792444
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 236
- Colección Past & Present Publications
- Año de Edición 2002
- Idioma Inglés
- Encuadernación Tela
Fashioning adultery: gender, sex and civility in England, 1660-1740
Editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
"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, perio...
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
"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 documents a growing diversity in perceptions of marital infidelity in this period, against the backdrop of an explosion in print culture and a decline in the judicial regulation of sexual immorality." In general terms the book explains a gradual transformation of ideas about extramarital sex, whereby the powerfully established religious argument that adultery was universally a sin became increasingly open to challenge. The book charts significant developments in the idiom in which sexually transgressive behaviour was discussed, showing how evolving ideas of civility and social refinement and new thinking about gender difference influenced assessments of immoral behaviour.