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

By David M. Turner

Book information

Year
2002
ISBN
0521792444, 9780521792448, 9780511041235, 0521042704, 9780521042703
Open Library ID
OL7754175M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1335436 bytes)
Pages
252\253
Topic
History
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 19:45:58

Description

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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