Sexual freedom in Restoration literature
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. The author examines works by Rochester, Behn and their contemporaries.
Print Book, English, 2008
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Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 2008
XII, 268 Seiten
9780521069168, 9780521464970, 0521069165, 0521464978
917348268
Introduction: the imperfect enjoyment; 1. Hobbes and the libertines; 2. The tyranny of desire: sex and politics in Rochester; 3. Absent from thee; 4. Playing trick for trick: domestic rebellion and the female libertine; 5. My masculine part: Aphra Behn and the androgynous imagination; Index.
Originally published: 1995