| Fashioning Adultery: Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660 1740 Contributor(s): Turner, David M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521042704 ISBN-13: 9780521042703 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $56.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2007 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Western Europe - General - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 306.736 |
| Series: Past and Present Publications |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6" W x 9" (0.82 lbs) 252 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Turner, David M.: - David M. Turner is Lecturer in History, University of Glamorgan. He was educated at Oxford and Durham Universities, and was awarded the first Past and Present Society Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research, London. This is his first book. |
