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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.Leites, Edmund is the author of 'Puritan Conscience and Modern Sexuality' with ISBN 9780300034905 and ISBN 0300034903.
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