Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the text
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Language, sex and civility
- 2 Marital advice and moral prescription
- 3 Cultures of cuckoldry
- 4 Sex, death and betrayal: adultery and murder
- 5 Sex, proof and suspicion: adultery in the church courts
- 6 Criminal conversation
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Past and Present Publications
Note on the text
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the text
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Language, sex and civility
- 2 Marital advice and moral prescription
- 3 Cultures of cuckoldry
- 4 Sex, death and betrayal: adultery and murder
- 5 Sex, proof and suspicion: adultery in the church courts
- 6 Criminal conversation
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Past and Present Publications
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Fashioning AdulteryGender, Sex and Civility in England, 1660–1740, pp. xiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002