Sexual Politics in Revolutionary England

by Sam Fullerton

Sexual politics in revolutionary England recounts a dramatic transformation in English sexual polemic that unfolded during the kingdom's mid-seventeenth-century civil wars. In early Stuart England, explicit sexual language was largely confined to manuscript and oral forms by the combined regulatory pressures of ecclesiastical press licensing and powerful cultural notions of civility and decorum. During the early 1640s, however, graphic sex-talk exploded...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526175908
• ISBN13: 9781526175908
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"