| Fashioning Adultery: Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660 1740 Contributor(s): Turner, David M. (Author), Roper, Lyndal (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521792444 ISBN-13: 9780521792448 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Western Europe - General - Family & Relationships | Marriage & Long Term Relationships - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 306.736 |
| LCCN: 2002022277 |
| Series: Past and Present Publications |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6" W x 9" (1.19 lbs) 252 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Cultural Region - British Isles - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
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. |