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In this book some of the most eminent critics of
seventeenth-century literature and some of the liveliest younger
scholars explore the interconnections between Milton's politics,
poetics and prose writings. While the essays focus on Milton's
prose, they open up interesting perspectives on his major poems and
on seventeenth-century ideologies, theologies and interpretative
practices. Their aim is to bridge the gap between a
history-of-ideas approach and literary/textual analysis, showing
how key ideas - such as authority, divorce, martyrdom or iconoclasm
- stimulate and trouble the imagination of a great writer. These
essays challenge the notion of Milton's prose as an 'achievement of
the left hand', and propose a complex relation between text and
context, the aesthetic and the sociopolitical, issues of
representation and the politics of gender.
A 'Deluge of Libertinism' swept through England in the turbulent
seventeenth century: class and gender relations went into deep
crisis, and sexually explicit literature took the blame. Bridging
periods often kept apart, Libertines and Radicals analyses English
sexual culture between the Civil Wars and the death of Charles II
in great detail. James Grantham Turner examines a broad range of
Civil War and Restoration texts, from sex-crime records to Milton's
epics and Rochester's 'mannerly obscene' lyrics. Turner places
special emphasis on women's writing and on pornographic texts like
The Wandering Whore and The Parliament of Women, flavoured with
cockney humour or 'Puritan' indignation. Throughout, Turner reads
satirical texts, whether political or pornographic, as an attempt
to neutralize women's efforts to establish their own institutions
and their own voice. This exhaustive study will be of interest to
cultural historians as well as literary scholars.
How did Casanova learn the theory of sex? Why did male pornographers write as intellectual women? What forms of sexuality emerged in the age of educational, scientific, and political revolution? Schooling Sex reconstructs the vividly compelling loose canon of sexually-explicit literature, in Latin, Italian, French, and English.
This study analyzes English sexual culture between the Civil Wars and the death of Charles II in unprecedented detail. James Grantham Turner examines a broad range of Civil War and Restoration texts, from sex-crime records to Milton's epics and Rochester's "mannerly obscene" lyrics. Throughout, he interprets satirical texts, whether political or pornographic, as an attempt to neutralize women's efforts to establish their own institutions and voice. This exhaustive study will be of interest to cultural historians as well as literary scholars.
This book's exploration of sexuality and gender in Renaissance art and literature starts from an assumption that would have seemed unthinkable a generation ago--that the "natural" phenomena of sex, gender, and subjectivity are constructed rather than essentially biological or fixed.
In this book, some of the most eminent critics of seventeenth-century literature and some of the liveliest younger scholars explore the interconnections among Milton's politics, poetics, and prose writings. While the essays focus on Milton's prose, they open up new perspectives on his major poems and on seventeenth-century ideologies, theologies, and interpretive practices. These essays challenge the notion of Milton's prose as an "achievement of the left hand," proposing a complex relation between text and context, the aesthetic and the sociopolitical, issues of representation and the politics of gender.
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