The Puritan origins of American sex : religion, sexuality, and national identity in American literature /
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New York :
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2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : The Puritan origins of American sex / Tracy Fessenden, Nicholas F. Radel, and Magdalena J. Zaborowska
- Wigglesworth, Mather, Starr : witch-hunts and general wickedness in public / Ed Ingebretsen
- A Sodom within : historicizing Puritan homoerotics in the diary of Michael Wigglesworth / Nicholas F. Radel
- "Remember me" : the wonders of an invisible world--sex, patriarchy, and paranoia in early America / Boris Vejdovsky
- Uncleanliness is next to godliness : sexuality, salvation, and the early American woman's execution narrative / Jodi Schorb
- The Puritan eyeball, or, sexing the transcendent / Renée L. Bergland
- Ejaculating tongues : Poe, Mather, and the Jewish penis / Gustavus Stadler
- Now you shall see how a slave was made a man : gendering Frederick Douglass's struggles with Christianity / Darryl Dickson-Carr
- Enslaving passions : white male sexuality and the evasion of race / Russ Castronovo
- The other woman's sphere : nuns, prostitutes, and the medicalization of middle-class domesticity / Tracy Fessenden
- Christian maidens and heathen monks : oratorical seduction at the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions / Carrie Tirado Bramen
- Americanization of a "queer fellow" : performing Jewishness and sexuality in Abraham Cahan's The rise of David Levinsky, with a footnote on the (Monica) Lewinsky'ed nation / Magdalena J. Zaborowska
- Desert of the heart : Jane Rule's Puritan outing / Margaret Soenser Breen
- Sinners in the hands of an angry Gardner / Robert A. Morace
- "Down here in paradise" : Toni Morrison's Americas / Judith Wilt.