The chastity plot

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"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 renu…

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Title Statements

Full title :The chastity plot / Lisabeth During.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2021

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):The University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication:Chicago
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2021

The Physical Object

Description:391 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780226741468, 022674146X
oclc:on1143646340
LC Classification:BJ1533.C4
Dewey Decimal:176/.4

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.

Subjects

Chasteté Chasteté -- Histoire Chasteté dans la littérature Chastity Chastity -- History Chastity in literature Continence -- Aspect religieux History PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy Sexual abstinence -- Religious aspects