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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
DOI
10.7591/9781501738609
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
24 MB (25026068 bytes)
Pages
256\255
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 19:14:36

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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