Libertines and Radicals in Early Modern London: Sexuality, Politics and Literary Culture, 1630 1685

This study analyzes 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. Throughout, he interprets satirical texts, whether political or pornographic, as an attempt to neutralize women's efforts to establish their own institutions and voice. This exhaustive study will be of interest to cultural historians as well as literary scholars.

Author: James Grantham Turner, Turner James Grantham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/15/2001
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.38lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.44w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780521782791

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2002 pg. 103

About the Author
Turner, James Grantham: - 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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