Sexual Freedom in Restoration Lit - Couverture souple

Chernaik, Warren

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521069165 ISBN 13 : 9780521069168

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Sexual freedom and ideology explored in the works of seventeenth-century English literature.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

The pursuit of sexual freedom and its political, philosophical and practical implications are the themes of this wide-ranging study of restoration literature, which confronts ideological issues of sexual politics equally relevant to modern debate. The author examines the writers of the later seventeenth century in their historical context, and focuses particularly on what happens when women desire sexual freedom as well as men. In a study of the writings, notorious for their sexual candour, of the Earl of Rochester, God-haunted atheist and licensed rebel of the Restoration court, and Aphra Behn, the most prominent and most controversial woman writer of the period, the author explores some of the tensions inherent in the ideology of individual liberty as applied to the conduct of sexual relations inside and outside marriage. The works by Rochester, Aphra Behn and their contemporaries gain much of their power from the ambivalence with which they treat the competing claims of freedom and authority, rebelliousness and security, the assertion of power and the need to love.

Revue de presse

"In considering the role of women in the social contract or, more pointedly, what happens when women as well as men desire sexual freedom, this book raises some important issues about the quest for sexual and social equality in the seventeenth century whilst providing much original and authoritative material on the literature of the period." Sixteenth Century Journal

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521069165
• ISBN 13: 9780521069168
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 284
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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