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

ISBN-13: 9780521792448 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 252 str.

Swansea) David M. Turner (University of Wales

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'… a crucial addition to historians' ongoing reassessment of attitudes towards sexual behaviour in the period c. 1550–1750 … this rewarding study firmly places adultery back on the agenda of historians of the long eighteenth century.' Journal of Continuity and Change

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Note on the text; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Language, sex and civility; 2. Marital advice and moral prescription; 3. Cultures of cuckoldry; 4. Sex, death and betrayal: adultery and murder; 5. Sex, proof and suspicion: adultery in the church courts; 6. Criminal conversation; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.