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11) Revealing bodies: anatomy, allegory, and the grounds of knowledge in the long eighteenth century
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Bucknell University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Coyness and Crime examines the extraordinary focus on feminine coyness in forty English comedies by ten diverse playwrights of the late seventeenth-century. In contexts ranging from reaffirmations of church and king to emerging interests in liberty and novelty, these plays consistently reveal women caught in an ironic and nearly intractable convergence of objectification and culpability that allows them little innocent sexual agency; this is both...
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