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

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

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Series: Past and Present Publications

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ISBN10: 0521792444
ISBN13: 9780521792448
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 15 2002
Pages: 252
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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