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Sexual Freedom in Restoration Literature

Book information

Year
1995
ISBN
0521464978, 9780521464970, 0521069165, 9780521069168, 9780511518850
LCC
PR437 .C48 1995
Open Library ID
OL1095309M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5527656 bytes)
Pages
284\280
Topic
Literature Literary
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The pursuit of sexual freedom and its political, philosophical and practical implications are the themes of this wide-ranging new study of seventeenth-century literature. The author examines the writers of the later seventeenth century in their historical context, and focuses particularly on what happens when women, as well as men, desire sexual freedom. In a study of the writings of the Earl of Rochester, notorious for their sexual candor, and of Aphra Behn, most controversial woman of her day, the author explores the tensions inherent in the ideology of individual liberty in the conduct of sexual relations inside and outside marriage.

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