Pain, Pleasure and Perversity: Discourses of Suffering in Seventeenth-Century EnglandIn order to chart the processes by which discourse relating to pain and suffering became marginalized during the period from the Renaissance to the end of the 17th century, this book examines a number of books on the subject translated into English from (mainly) Spanish and Italian. |
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Contents
Constructs of Suffering in SeventeenthCentury england | 21 |
Suffering and Sexuality in Catholic hagiography | 61 |
The Subversion | 89 |
Cruelty and Compassion | 115 |
The Spectacle of Suffering | 143 |
The Sexual Politics of Suffering | 167 |
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| Title | Pain, Pleasure and Perversity: Discourses of Suffering in Seventeenth-Century England |
| Author | Professor John R. Yamamoto-Wilson |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013 |
| ISBN | 1409443957, 9781409443957 |
| Length | 286 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / Great Britain History / Modern / 16th Century Religion / History |
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