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Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London: Sexuality, Politics and Literary Culture, 1630 1685

Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London: Sexuality, Politics and Literary Culture, 1630 1685

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521782791
ISBN13: 9780521782791
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 15 2001
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.44 Depth: 9.26
Language: 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.

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