To Kiss the Chastening Rod: Domestic Fiction and Sexual Ideology in the American Renaissance
G. M. Goshgarian
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.
年:
2019
出版社:
Cornell University Press
语言:
english
页:
257
ISBN 10:
1501738607
ISBN 13:
9781501738609
文件:
PDF, 23.77 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2019