Fashioning Adultery
Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660–1740
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- Author: David M. Turner, University of Wales, Swansea
- Date Published: October 2007
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521042703
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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 - including sermons, pamphlets, plays, diaries, periodicals, trial reports and the records of marital litigation - it documents a growing diversity in perceptions of marital infidelity in this period, against the backdrop of an explosion in print culture and a decline in the judicial regulation of sexual immorality. In general terms the book charts and explains a gradual transformation of ideas about extra-marital sex, whereby the powerfully established religious argument that adultery was universally a sin became increasingly open to challenge. The book charts significant developments in the idiom in which sexually transgressive behaviour was discussed, showing how evolving ideas of civility and social refinement and new thinking about gender difference influenced assessments of immoral behaviour.
Read more- Fills a gap in the study of the sexual and social habits of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England
- Provides a major analysis of men's attitudes towards adultery in this period
- Takes a strongly interdisciplinary approach to the subject, drawing on sermons, pamphlets, plays, diaries, periodicals, and trial reports and records
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'Through the combination of close textual work and the analysis of a wide range of genres this study of infidelity fills a significant gap in the study of sexual morality in the early modern period.' Institute of Historical Research
See more reviews'… 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
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- Date Published: October 2007
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521042703
- length: 252 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 154 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.381kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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