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Fashioning adultery : gender, sex, and civility in England, 1660-1740 /

This book provides the first 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Turner, David M., 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Colección:Past and present publications.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on the text; 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.