To kiss the chastening rod : domestic fiction and sexual ideology in the American Renaissance / G.M. Goshgarian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goshgarian, G. M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Domestic fiction, American--History and criticism.

Domestic fiction, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York ; London : Cornell University Press, [1992]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface

1. The Fictional Subject

2. The Facts Of Life In The 1850's

3. His Sister's Keeper: Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World

4. Life With Father: Augusta Jane Evans's Beulah

5. Go Away and Die: The Lamplighter, 'Lena Rivers, Ernest Linwood

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5017-3860-7

OCLC:

1114834826