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Article: A Martyr for Sin:Rochester's Critique of Polity, Sexuality,and Society.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2000
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A Martyr for Sin: Rochester's Critique of Polity, Sexuality, and Society. By KIRK COMBE. Cranbury, NJ: University of Delaware Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1998. 186 pp. 30 [pounds sterling].
This study of Rochester opens with a difficult agenda. The thesis depends on the possibility of theorizing Rochester's verse, and gives a rapid survey of the kind of theorists whose discourses might be most productive (in a few pages we have Foucault, Derrida, Nietzsche, de Man, and Barthes, amongst others). Yet, also, 'this undertaking entails recapturing the rhetorical play Rochester's writings might have had for their original audience' (p. 20). In a context ...