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

Geoffrey M. Goshgarian

Published by Cornell University Press 1992

To Kiss the Chastening Rod

Domestic Fiction and Sexual Ideology in the American Renaissance

Geoffrey M. Goshgarian

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501738609

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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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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. The Fictional Subject Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Facts Of Life In The 1850s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
3. His Sister's Keeper: Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
4. Life With Father: Augusta Jane Evans's Beulah Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
5. Go Away and Die: The Lamplighter, 'Lena Rivers, Ernest Linwood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Keywords: Family & Relationships; U.S. History; Literary Studies

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Published: April 15, 2019
ISBN: 9781501738609