The Puritan Conscience and Modern Sexuality

ISBN-13: 9780300065497 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 208 str.

Edmund Leites

Opis

Drawing upon the insights of psychoanalysis and a wide array of sources-from lyrical Puritan marriage sermons to the works of Dryden, Congreve, and Richardson-Edmund Leites overturns the stereotype of Puritans as cold-blooded ascetics as he examines the sexual attitudes of seventeenth- and eighteenth- century England and demonstrates the impact they have had on modern beliefs.