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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"Libertines and Radicals is unquestionably a major contribution to our understanding of libertinism in the age of Milton..." Milton Quarterly
"An ambitious and innovative book." Seventeeth-Century News
"The mass and diversity of materials Turner covers is awesome....Turner's scholarship will be mined by students and scholars in any number of fields...and those readers will also discover here a model of brilliance and intellectual tact." Choice
"Libertines and Radicals is an impressive, suggestive, and elegant work that makes an important contribution to political, cultural, and literary studies." Albion
"The writing is racy and polished, leaping from anecdote to text to archive, and back again...required reading for any student of Restoration literature." Renaissance Quarterly
"Learned and lubricious, the book is witty, exceedingly well informed, and a little bit obscene." Studies in English Literature
"An ambitious and innovative book." Seventeeth-Century News
"The mass and diversity of materials Turner covers is awesome....Turner's scholarship will be mined by students and scholars in any number of fields...and those readers will also discover here a model of brilliance and intellectual tact." Choice
"Libertines and Radicals is an impressive, suggestive, and elegant work that makes an important contribution to political, cultural, and literary studies." Albion
"The writing is racy and polished, leaping from anecdote to text to archive, and back again...required reading for any student of Restoration literature." Renaissance Quarterly
"Learned and lubricious, the book is witty, exceedingly well informed, and a little bit obscene." Studies in English Literature
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Libertines 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.
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What does it mean to call somebody a whore, or, more precisely, to write prostitution across a person or institution? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
disorderly subculture, vagabond lust, popular libertinism, festive violence, delle puttane, puttana errante, handsome ills, sexual satire, shaming rituals, political pornography, common shore, royal mistresses, rough music, lower stratum, des filles, common whore, illicit sexuality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bartholomew Fair, Sons of Belial, Lady Castlemaine, Margaret Cavendish, Nell Gwyn, Duchess of Cleveland, Henrietta Maria, Shrove Tuesday, Aphra Behn, Duke of York, Earl of Dorset, Sack of Rome, John Phillips, May Day, Samuel Butler, Sir Frederick Frolick, Star Chamber, Veronica Franco, Cock Tavern, Duchess of Portsmouth, Duke of Buckingham, Restoration London, Susan Willis, The Practical Part of Lore, Henry Marten New!
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disorderly subculture, vagabond lust, popular libertinism, festive violence, delle puttane, puttana errante, handsome ills, sexual satire, shaming rituals, political pornography, common shore, royal mistresses, rough music, lower stratum, des filles, common whore, illicit sexuality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bartholomew Fair, Sons of Belial, Lady Castlemaine, Margaret Cavendish, Nell Gwyn, Duchess of Cleveland, Henrietta Maria, Shrove Tuesday, Aphra Behn, Duke of York, Earl of Dorset, Sack of Rome, John Phillips, May Day, Samuel Butler, Sir Frederick Frolick, Star Chamber, Veronica Franco, Cock Tavern, Duchess of Portsmouth, Duke of Buckingham, Restoration London, Susan Willis, The Practical Part of Lore, Henry Marten New!
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- The English Rogue, Part 1 by Richard Head on 4 pages
- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on 4 pages
- Bartholomew Fair (Revels Plays Student Editions) by Ben Jonson on 4 pages
- An Ordered Society by Susan Dwyer Amussen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sociable Letters by Margaret Cavendish in Front Matter, and page 115
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- The Literature of Lesbianism by Terry Castle on page 55, and page 148
- The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature (The New Cambridge History of English Literature) by David Loewenstein in Back Matter
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