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To Kiss the Chastening Rod: Domestic Fiction and Sexual Ideology in the American Renaissance

By G. M. Goshgarian

Book information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781501738609, 9780801425592
LCC
PS374.D57 .G674 1992
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (24925937 bytes)
Pages
257\257
Time added
2023-08-30 09:09:31
American-History and criticism.Domestic fiction

Description

Examining ideas about masturbation, female sexuality, the family, and post-Calvinist religion that shaped the readership of popular woman's fiction, To Kiss the Chastening Rod shows that passionlessness was the privileged theme of a pervasive discourse which sought to exert social control through the rigorous repression, minute supervision, and covert cultivation of sexuality.

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