The Puritan Origins of American Sex (eBook, ePUB)

Religion, Sexuality, and National Identity in American Literature
Redaktion: Fessenden, Tracy; Zaborowska, Magdalena J.; Radel, Nicholas F.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From witch trials to pickaxe murderers, from brothels to convents, and from slavery to Toni Morrison's Paradise, these essays provide fascinating and provocative insights into our sexual and religious conventions and beliefs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136692369
• Artikelnr.: 40824674

Autorenporträt

Tracy Fessenden is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Nicholas Radel is Professor of English at Furman University. MagdalenaZaborowska is Associate Professor of English at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Foreword by Emory Elliott; 1. Introduction: The Puritan Origins of American Sex
Tracy Fessenden
Nicholas F. Radel
and Magdalena J. Zaborowska ; 2. Wigglesworth
Mather
Starr: Witch-hunts and General Wickedness in Public
Ed Ingebretsen ; 3. A Sodom Withing: Historicizing Puritan Homoerotics in the Diary of Michael Wigglesworth
Nicholas F. Radel ; 4. Remember Me: The Wonders of an Invisible World: Sex
Patriarcy
and Paranoia in Early America
Boris Vejdovsky ; 5. Uncleanliness is Next to Godliness: Sexuality
Salvation
and the Early American Women's Execution Narrative
Jodi Schorb ; 6. The Puritan Eye-Ball
or
Sexing the Transcendent
Rene L. Bergland ; 7. Ejaculating Tongues: Poe
Mather
and the Jewish Penis
Gustavus Stadler ; 8. Now You Shall See How a Slave was Made a Man: Gendering Frederick Douglass's Struggles with Christianity
Darryl Dickson-Carr ; 9. Enslaving Passions: White Male Sexuality and the Evasion of Race
Russ Castronovo ; 10. The other Woman's Sphere: Nuns
Prostitutes
and the Medicalization of Middle-Class Domesticity
Tracy Fessenden ; 11. Christian Maidens and Heathen Monks: Oratorical Seduction at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions
Carrie Tirado Bramen ; 12. Americanization of a Queer Fellow: Performning Jewishness and Sexuality in Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky
with a Footnote on the (Monica)Lewinsky'ed Nation
Magdalena Zaborowska ; 13. Desert of the Heart : Jane Rule's Puritan Outing
Margaret Soenser Breen ; 14. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Gardner
Robert Morace ; 15. Down Here in Paradise: Toni Morrison's Americas
Judith Wilt ; Notes on Contributors; Index