| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Is there a chastity plot? -- Virginity and terror : reading Hippolytus -- Marriage and mayhem -- The dangerous mystique of continence -- The pure and the impure : pastoral and the reversal of nature -- A virgin enthroned : power, performance, and poetry in the English Renaissance -- The virgin's fall -- Losing the plot : the politics and poetry of modern virginity |
| Summary |
"There is a compelling story to be told about the rise, fall, and transfiguration of the ideal of chastity, and Lisabeth During is the perfect person to tell it. In The Chastity Plot, During reveals how the obsession with chastity has played a powerful role in the history of our moral imagination. The metaphysics of purity continue to haunt literature, religion, and philosophy. The demand for chastity has shaped social institutions and figured in the construction of political power; sexual renunciation has been an ornament to sainthood and a technique of ascetics both sacred and profane"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed July 28, 2023) |
| Subject |
Chastity.
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Chastity -- History
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Sexual abstinence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Chastity in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
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Chastity
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Chastity in literature
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Sexual abstinence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
022674163X |
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9780226741635 |
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