TY  - BOOK
AU  - Goshgarian,G.M.
TI  - To Kiss the Chastening Rod: Domestic Fiction and Sexual Ideology in the American Renaissance 
SN  - 9781501738609
U1  - 813/.309355 20
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Family & Relationships
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - U.S. History
KW  - HISTORY / United States / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501738609
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501738609
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501738609/original
ER  -