A01=Aphra Behn
A01=Charles Sedley
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Author_Aphra Behn
Author_Charles Sedley
Author_Earl of Rochester
Category=DCF
Category=DNT
Category=DSB
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Product details
- ISBN 9781857546972
- Weight: 227g
- Dimensions: 135 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 24 Apr 2003
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Sensual pleasure, gentle, violent or comic, is the theme of this anthology of 17th-century erotic writing. "Restoration Bawdy" brings vividly to life a "masquerading age". The book draws on high and low culture, and includes courtly poems and works by Rochester, Sedley and Etheridge, as well as broadside ballads, doggerel from almanacs and songs from plays. A number of the pieces have only previously been available in research libraries. The result is a lively social panorama of Restoration England and a cheerfully amoral celebration of the pleasures of the flesh.
