Sexual Politics in Revolutionary England
Seiten
2024
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7590-8 (ISBN)
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7590-8 (ISBN)
This book explores the sudden emergence of graphic sex-talk in English print culture during the events of the English Revolution (1640–60) and argues for the long-term significance of that development for the political culture of late Stuart England and beyond. -- .
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 into polemical print for the first time in English history. Over the next two decades, sexual politics evolved into a vital component of public discourse, as contemporaries utilized sexual satire to reframe the English Revolution as a battle between licentious Stuart tyrants and their lecherous puritan enemies. By the time that Charles II regained the throne in 1660, this book argues, sex was already a routine element of English political culture. -- .
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 into polemical print for the first time in English history. Over the next two decades, sexual politics evolved into a vital component of public discourse, as contemporaries utilized sexual satire to reframe the English Revolution as a battle between licentious Stuart tyrants and their lecherous puritan enemies. By the time that Charles II regained the throne in 1660, this book argues, sex was already a routine element of English political culture. -- .
Samuel Fullerton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Texas -- .
Introduction
1 Sexual satire and partisan identity, 1637–42
2 Mobilisation, escalation, and sexual polemic, 1642–46
3 Toleration and its discontents, 1646–48
4 The porno-politics of regicide, 1648–51
5 Contesting reformation, 1649–53
6 Discipline and debauchery, 1654–59
7 The Restoration and beyond
Conclusion
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.05.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain |
| Zusatzinfo | 9 b&w illustrations (colour in ebooks) |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-7590-8 / 1526175908 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-7590-8 / 9781526175908 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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