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Plots and counterplots : sexual politics and the body politic in English literature, 1660-1730

This study relates literary and political plots in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through the notion of sexual politics. From the restoration in 1660 to the rise of oligarchy in the 1720s, it traverses a wide range of authors and literary genres, including satire, tragedy, comedy, romance, georgic and the novel.
Print Book, English, 1993
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1993
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xviii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780521356206, 0521356202
26761345
Political plottings : history, sexual politics, and the body politic
Counterplotting restoration : windows and other fatal women
The plots thicken : dogma and its discontents through exlusion
Revolutionary plottings from Whig myth to revisionary history
Whigs and husbands : politics and cultivation
Coda : cultural politics from the South Sea Bubble to Tom Jones