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Fashioning Adultery: Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660-1740

By David M. Turner

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2002
ISBN
0521792444, 9780521792448, 9780511041235, 0521042704, 9780521042703
Open Library ID
OL7754175M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1010 kB (1034238 bytes)
Series
Past and Present Publications
Pages
253\253
Topic
History
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34
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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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