Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London: Sexuality, Politics and Literary Culture, 1630-1685Libertines and Radicals analyses 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, Turner reads satirical texts, whether political or pornographic, as an attempt to neutralise 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. |
Contents
Pornographia and the markings of prostitution an introduction | 1 |
Ceremonies of abjectlon sex politics and the disorderly subculture | 47 |
The posture of a free state polit1cal pornography and the commonwealth of women 16401660 | 74 |
The wandering whores return the carnivalization of sexuality in the early Restoration | 118 |
Monstrous assemblies bawdyhouse riots libertine libels and the royal mistress | 164 |
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References to this book
Poetry and the Creation of a Whig Literary Culture 1681-1714 Abigail Williams No preview available - 2005 |