The Puritan Origins of American Sex
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-92640-9 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.12.2000 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 590 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-415-92640-8 / 0415926408 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-92640-9 / 9780415926409 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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