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