Plots and Counterplots: Sexual Politics and the Body Politic in English Literature, 1660-1730 - Brossura

Braverman, Richard

 
9780521619301: Plots and Counterplots: Sexual Politics and the Body Politic in English Literature, 1660-1730

Sinossi

A study of sexual politics in literary and political plots in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

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Descrizione del libro

This study relates literary and political plots in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through the notion of sexual politics. From the restoration in 1660 to the rise of oligarchy in the 1720s, it traverses a wide range of authors and literary genres, including satire, tragedy, comedy, romance, georgic and the novel.

Contenuti

List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Political plottings: history, sexual politics, and the body politic; 2. Counterplotting restoration: widows and other fatal women; 3. The plots thicken: dogma and its discontents through exclusion; 4. Revolutionary plottings: representing the revolution; 5. Whigs and husbands: politics and cultivation; 6. Coda: cultural politics from the South Sea Bubble to Tom Jones; Select bibliography; Index.

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9780521356206: Plots and Counterplots: Sexual Politics and the Body Politic in English Literature, 1660–1730

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0521356202 ISBN 13:  9780521356206
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1993
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