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To Kiss the Chastening Rod : Domestic Fiction and Sexual Ideology in the American Renaissance / G. M. Goshgarian.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1992Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501738609
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.309355 20
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Fictional Subject -- 2. The Facts Of Life In The 1850s -- 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
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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Fictional Subject -- 2. The Facts Of Life In The 1850s -- 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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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