Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London - Turner, James Grantham; James Grantham, Turner
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A 'Deluge of Libertinism' swept through England in the turbulent seventeenth century: class and gender relations went into deep crisis, and sexually explicit literature took the blame. Bridging periods often kept apart, 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. Turner places special emphasis on women's writing and on pornographic texts like…mehr

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A 'Deluge of Libertinism' swept through England in the turbulent seventeenth century: class and gender relations went into deep crisis, and sexually explicit literature took the blame. Bridging periods often kept apart, 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. Turner places special emphasis on women's writing and on pornographic texts like The Wandering Whore and The Parliament of Women, flavoured with cockney humour or 'Puritan' indignation. 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.

Table of contents:
Illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Pornographia and the markings of prostitution: an introduction; 2. Ceremonies of abjection: sex politics and the disorderly subculture; 3. 'The posture of a free state': political pornography and the 'commonwealth of women' 1640-1660; 4. The wandering whore's return: the carnivalization of sexuality in the early restoration; 5. Monstrous assemblies: bawdy-house riots, 'libertine libels', and the royal mistress; 6. 'Making yourself a beast': upper-class riot and inversionary wit in the age of Rochester; Epilogue: 'in Bathsheba's embraces old': Pornographia Rediviva at the close of Charles II's reign.

Libertines and Radicals analyses English sexual culture between the Civil Wars and the death of Charles II. Turner examines a range of Civil War and Restoration texts, from sex-crime records to works by Milton and Rochester. This study will be of interest to cultural historians as well as literary scholars.

Analyses English sexual culture between the Civil Wars and the death of Charles II.
Autorenporträt
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).