The chastity plot / Lisabeth During.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

During, Lisabeth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chastity.

Chastity--History.

Sexual abstinence--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Sexual abstinence.

Chastity in literature.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

391 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Is there a chastity plot?

2. Virginity and terror: reading Hippolytus

3. Marriage and mayhem

4. The dangerous mystique of continence

5. The pure and the impure: pastoral and the reversal of nature

6. A virgin enthroned: power, performance, and poetry in the english renaissance

7. The virgin's fall

8. Losing the plot: the politics and poetry of modern virginity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780226741468

022674146X

OCLC:

1143646340