Introduction
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Samuel Fullerton
Abstract
This chapter lays out the book’s central arguments about the emergence of sex-talk into print during the English Revolution and provides important context for the narrative chapters that follow. It defines key terms, including the crucial analytical category of ‘sexual politics’; surveys the political, religious and cultural lenses through which early moderns approached gender, sexuality and the body; and explains how the study fits into the current historiographies of the English civil wars, the Restoration and the history of Western sexuality. The chapter concludes with a brief survey of English sexual politics as they developed during the Tudor and early Stuart periods.
Abstract
This chapter lays out the book’s central arguments about the emergence of sex-talk into print during the English Revolution and provides important context for the narrative chapters that follow. It defines key terms, including the crucial analytical category of ‘sexual politics’; surveys the political, religious and cultural lenses through which early moderns approached gender, sexuality and the body; and explains how the study fits into the current historiographies of the English civil wars, the Restoration and the history of Western sexuality. The chapter concludes with a brief survey of English sexual politics as they developed during the Tudor and early Stuart periods.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures vi
- Acknowledgements vii
- List of abbreviations ix
- Introduction 1
- 1 Sexual satire and partisan identity, 1637–42 29
- 2 Mobilisation, escalation and sexual polemic, 1642–46 69
- 3 Toleration and its discontents, 1646–48 106
- 4 The porno-politics of regicide, 1648–51 147
- 5 Contesting reformation, 1649–53 187
- 6 Discipline and debauchery, 1654–59 226
- 7 The Restoration and beyond 265
- Conclusion 279
- Bibliography of archival sources 289
- Index 296
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures vi
- Acknowledgements vii
- List of abbreviations ix
- Introduction 1
- 1 Sexual satire and partisan identity, 1637–42 29
- 2 Mobilisation, escalation and sexual polemic, 1642–46 69
- 3 Toleration and its discontents, 1646–48 106
- 4 The porno-politics of regicide, 1648–51 147
- 5 Contesting reformation, 1649–53 187
- 6 Discipline and debauchery, 1654–59 226
- 7 The Restoration and beyond 265
- Conclusion 279
- Bibliography of archival sources 289
- Index 296
