Fashioning Adultery: Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660 1740 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521792448)

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.

Author: David M. Turner
ISBN-10: 0521792444
ISBN-13: 9780521792448
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/16/2002
Pages: 252
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d