LIBERTINES AND RADICALS IN EARLY MODERN LONDON: SEXUALITY, POLITICS, AND LITERARY CULTURE, 1630-1685.

TURNER, James Grantham.

ISBN 10: 0521782791 / ISBN 13: 9780521782791

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002

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8vo. Pp: xxii, 343. First edition. White and blue illustrated dust jacket with purple lettering. Publisher's black boards with gilt lettering to spine. Black and white illustrations. Bookmark loosely inserted at front, ISBN: 9780521782791 Very good in very good minus dust jacket. Slight wrinkling at pages xi through xiv. Previous owner's name written in black ink at top of front end paper. Slightly bumped at head and tail of spine. Minor toning at top and bottom edges and spine of dust jacket. Edgewear at head of dust jacket spine. Closed tear at tail of dust jacket spine, approx. 1cm.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: LIBERTINES AND RADICALS IN EARLY MODERN LONDON: SEXUALITY, POLITICS, AND LITERARY CULTURE, 1630-1685.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521782791
• ISBN 13: 9780521782791
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

James Grantham Turner is Professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of One Flesh: Paradisal Marriage and Sexual Relations in the Age of Milton (1987) and editor of The Politics of Landscape: Rural Scenery and Society in English Poetry, 1630–1660 (1979) and Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe: Institutions, Texts, Images (Cambridge 1993).