James Grantham TurnerLibertines and Radicals in Early Modern London
Sexuality, Politics and Literary Culture, 1630 1685
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).
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Preface
List of abbreviations and frequently cited works
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
Notes
Index.
