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Fashioning adultery gender, sex, and civility in England, 1660-1740

This book provides the first major survey of representations of adultery in later seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Bringing together a wide variety of literary and legal sources it charts and explains crucial shifts in perceptions of marital infidelity and the development of a more rational understanding of adultery.

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