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Fashioning Adultery - Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660-1740 (Paperback)
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Fashioning Adultery - Gender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660-1740 (Paperback)
Series: Past and Present Publications
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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.
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