The Puritan Conscience and Modern Sexuality

By Edmund Leites

Book Overview

Drawing upon the insights of psychoanalysis and a wide array of sources-from lyrical Puritan marriage sermons to the works of Dryden, Congreve, and Richardson-Edmund Leites overturns the stereotype of Puritans as cold-blooded ascetics as he examines the sexual attitudes of seventeenth- and eighteenth- century England and demonstrates the impact they have had on modern beliefs.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300065493
• ISBN13: 9780300065497
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"