The chastity plot /
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...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2021]
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Table of 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.