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Adultery and impotence as literary spectacle in the divorce debates and tracts of the long eighteenth century
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Capern, A. Adultery and impotence as literary spectacle in the divorce debates and tracts of the long eighteenth century.

Abstract This essay will examine the origins and emergence of the crisis that engulfed the propertied classes from the late seventeenth century onwards through an analysis of the early legal debates about matrimonial separation and the later bawdy pa... Read More about Adultery and impotence as literary spectacle in the divorce debates and tracts of the long eighteenth century.