Fashioning Adultery Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660-1740 |
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| Author:
| Turner, David M. |
| Series title: | Past and Present Publications |
| ISBN: | 978-0-511-49610-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2009 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $165.00 |
Book Description:
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This 2002 book provides a major survey of representations of adultery in later seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Bringing together a wide variety of literary and legal sources it charts and explains crucial shifts in perceptions of marital infidelity and the development of a more rational understanding of adultery.
This 2002 book provides a major survey of representations of adultery in later seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Bringing together a wide variety of literary and legal sources it charts and explains crucial shifts in perceptions of marital infidelity and the development of a more rational understanding of adultery.