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

by Geoffrey M. Goshgarian

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501738609
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	04/15/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	25 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

G. M. Goshgarian is the translator of several books from Cornell, including The Jew and the Other and Three Women in Dark Times: Edith Stein, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil.

Editorial Reviews

Original edition (1982, McGraw-Hill) is reprinted in its entirety as Section II of this volume. Section I covers changes in geographic centers, power bases, industrial structures, institutional and management arrangements, and political activities since 1982. Acidic paper. The basic subject of bestselling antebellum by women about women for women was, according to Goshgarian, sex. Goshgarian takes a close and penetrating look at the facts of life in the US of the 1850s and offers works of women's fiction, now largely forgotten. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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