| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 236 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Past and present publications
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Past and present publications.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-228) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on the text; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Language, sex and civility; 2. Marital advice and moral prescription; 3. Cultures of cuckoldry; 4. Sex, death and betrayal: adultery and murder; 5. Sex, proof and suspicion: adultery in the church courts; 6. Criminal conversation; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
This book provides the first major survey of representations of adultery in later seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Bringing together a wide variety of literary and legal sources it charts and explains crucial shifts in perceptions of marital infidelity and the development of a more rational understanding of adultery. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Adultery -- England -- History.
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Adultery. |
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England. |
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History. |
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England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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1600-1799 |
| Indexed Term |
Adulterio Inglaterra Historia. |
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Inglaterra Vida social y costumbres. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Turner, David M., 1972- Fashioning adultery. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521792444 (DLC) 2002022277 (OCoLC)49248519 |
| ISBN |
0511041233 (electronic book) |
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9780511041235 (electronic book) |
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0511047045 |
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9780511047046 |
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0511119054 (electronic book) |
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9780511119057 (electronic book) |
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9780521792448 (hardback) |
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0521792444 (hardback) |
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9780511496103 (electronic book) |
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0511496109 (electronic book) |
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