TY - BOOK ID - 10504614 TI - Sexual freedom in restoration literature PY - 1995 SN - 0521464978 0521069165 0511518854 0511834705 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - 820 "16" KW - English literature KW - -Libertines in literature KW - Liberty in literature KW - Literature and society KW - -Sex customs in literature KW - Literature KW - Literature and sociology KW - Society and literature KW - Sociology and literature KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Freedom in literature KW - Liberty as a theme in literature KW - Dissolute persons in literature KW - Licentious persons in literature KW - Profligates in literature KW - Rakes in literature KW - British literature KW - Inklings (Group of writers) KW - Nonsense Club (Group of writers) KW - Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) KW - Engelse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 KW - History and criticism KW - History KW - -Social aspects KW - Great Britain KW - -English literature KW - Libertines in literature. KW - Liberty in literature. KW - Sex customs in literature. KW - Sexual freedom in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - -Great Britain KW - -820 "16" KW - 820 "16" Engelse literatuur--17e eeuw. Periode 1600-1699 KW - Libertines in literature KW - Sexual freedom in literature KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:10504614 AB - The pursuit of sexual freedom and its political, philosophical and practical implications are the themes of this wide-ranging study of restoration literature, which confronts ideological issues of sexual politics equally relevant to modern debate. The author examines the writers of the later seventeenth century in their historical context, and focuses particularly on what happens when women desire sexual freedom as well as men. In a study of the writings, notorious for their sexual candour, of the Earl of Rochester, God-haunted atheist and licensed rebel of the Restoration court, and Aphra Behn, the most prominent and most controversial woman writer of the period, the author explores some of the tensions inherent in the ideology of individual liberty as applied to the conduct of sexual relations inside and outside marriage. The works by Rochester, Aphra Behn and their contemporaries gain much of their power from the ambivalence with which they treat the competing claims of freedom and authority, rebelliousness and security, the assertion of power and the need to love. ER -